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NEWYORK CITY 

1910-1920 




ISSUED BY THE 
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1920 



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The Industrial Highroad to Queens Borough 

The New York Connecting Railroad Bridge 

Across the East River at Hell Gate. 



QUEENS 
BOROUGH 

NEW YORK CITY 
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The Borough of 
Homes and Industry 

A descriptive and illustrated book setting forth its 
wonderful growth and development in commerce, 
industry and homes during the past ten years, 1910 
to 1920; a prediction of even greater growth dur- 
ing the next ten years, 1920 to 1930; and a 
statement of its many advantages, attractions 
and possibilities as a section wherein to live, to 
work and to succeed. 

Compiled and Edited by 

WALTER I. WILLIS 

Secretary 
ISSUED BY THE 

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

OF THE BOROUGH OF QUEENS 

NEW YORK CITY 

1920 



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Copyrighted 1920 by the 

Chajiber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens, 

New York City. 



presses of 
the l. i. star pub. co. 
oueens borough. 



JUL -2 1920 
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INTRODUCTION 




HE past decade, from 1910 to 1920, might properly be called 
the "Construction Period" in the history of the development of 
Queens Borough ; for, during that time, there have been con- 
structed new bridges, highways, tunnels, rapid transit exten- 
sions, hundreds of industrial plants, and thousands of 
homes of every description, the total cost of which ex- 
ceeds a quarter of a billion dollars. 

The expenditure of this vast sum of money has resulted in making Queens 
Borough, once but a "county on Long Island" now a real integral part of New 
York City. Its many residential and industrial centers which even today are 
separated by large, undeveloped, intervening areas, are expanding so rapidly that 
they will soon grow into one continuous built-up community. 

The growth of Queens Borough during the past ten years, despite the lack 
of cheaper transit facilities, has been marvelous. What it will be in the next ten 
years with transit facilities equal, and in many cases, superior to every other 
section of New York City, will surprise even the most confident. Today Queens 
is well started on the most wonderful development that has ever taken place 
in any borough of New York City, or, for that matter, in any city of the world. 

It is the purpose of this publication to set forth the commercial, industrial, 
financial and residential advantages and possibilities of the Borough of Queens 
considered by itself. It is not generally realized how great a city Queens Borough 
would be separated from its political connections with New York City. With an 
area of 117 square miles, or 37% of the land area of New York, it is as large as 
Philadelphia and three times as large as Boston. With a population of 500,000 
in 1920 it would be among the first twelve cities in the United States. Industrially, 
Queens ranks 15th in the annual value of its manufactured products. Not more 
than three cities in the country exceed it in the value of plans filed for new 
buildings. 

Its banking facilities are of the best ; its schools arid churches are unexcelled. 
It has 200 miles of waterfront on the East River, Flushing Bay, Long Island 
Sound, Jamaica Bav and the Atlantic Ocean. Its natural advantages are unsur- 
passed. 

Queens is indeed "The Borough of Magni'ficient Opportunities" and "The 
Fastest Growing Borough of New York City." 




Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



HISTORICAL NOTES 

N MxA.Y 6th, 1626, Peter Minuet, the first Dutch Governor, pur- 
chased the Island of Manhattan for the West India Company, 
paying to the Indians in heads, buttons and other trinkets to the 
value of $24 for their real estate. During the latter part of 
1638, Wilhehn Kieft, the third Dutch Governor, thought it well 
to secure more land for the company; and he purchased from 
the Indian Chiefs, during that and the following year, nearly all of the territory 
now comprising the County of Queens. The purchase price is not recorded. 

In 1664, when Governor Peter Stuyvesant surrendered New Amsterdam to 
the English, the name of the City was changed to New York. This resulted in 
other changes of names, such as : Vlessigen to Flushing, Rusdorf to Jamaica, 
Breuckelen to Brooklyn. In 1672 the Dutch recaptured the City and its name was 
changed to New Orange. In 1674, possession was restored to the English and 
the name of New York was again resumed. 

Thomas Dongan, who was appointed Governor by the Duke of York, insti- 
tuted in that year, the long desired Colonial Assembly which permitted the in- 
habitants of the province to participate in legislation. The representatives of 
the settlers took their seats October 17, 1683 and passed 14 Acts, one of which 
was the division of New York into twelve counties. Queens County, named 
after Queens Catherine of England, was one of the twelve counties. 

Queens County, as organized by the Act of November 1, 1683, had an area 
of 396 square miles, including all of what is now known as Nassau County. Its 
entire length from east to west was 26 miles, and its breadth from north to south 
about 16 miles. The county was divided into six municipal corporations, or 
towns ; namely. Newtown, Flushing, Jamaica, North Hempstead, Hempstead and 
Oyster Bay. 

The first conveyance of land obtained from the Indians was made to the 
settlers in 1643 and embraced most of the territory included within the original 
town of Hempstead where the first county courts were held. The location of 
the county court remained in Hempstead until the early "seventies" when it was 
removed to Long Island City, the Legislature of New York State in 1872 author- 
izing the erection of the Court House and appropriated the necessary funds for 
its construction. 

The Bill permitting the incorporation of 'T.ong Island City," which had 
formerly been a part of Newtown, was passed by the Legislature in 1870. It 
consolidated into one municipality the following villages : Blissville, Hunters 
Point. Astoria, Ravenswood, Dutch Kills, Steinway, Middletown, and Bowery 



New York City 7 

Bay. Long Island City continued as a separate municipality for 28 years until 
it was consolidated with New York. The boundaries of Long Island City were : 
on the north, East River and Bowery Bay; on the east, Town of Newtown; on 
the south, Newtown Creek ; and the west, the East River. 

At the election held November 6, 1894, the question of consolidating with 
the City of New York was voted upon by the residents of Queens County. The 
majority of votes in favor came from the Long Island City section whose inhabi- 
tants, because of their proximity to New York, had been in favor of the project 
for many years. The western part of the county therefore became part of the 
City of New York, and is known as Queens Borough ; while the eastern part of 
the county was erected into a separate county, known as Nassau, taking its name 
from the early name for Long Island. 

That part of Queens County comprehended in the consolidation comprised 
Long Island City (1st Ward), the towns of Newtown (2nd Ward), Flushing 
(3rd Ward), Jamaica (4th Ward), and that portion of the town of Hempstead 
extending westward, from the eastern limits of the incorporated village of Far 
Rockaway, to Rockaway Beach Inlet, now known as the 5th Ward. Its territory 
comprised an area of 117 square miles and included therein were eight incorpor- 
ated villages besides Long Island City, namely: Flushing, College Point, White- 
stone, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Far Rockaway Arverne and Rockaway Beach. 
There were also many unincorporated villages chief among which were Hollis, 
Queens, Springfield and Little Neck. 







MOORE HOUSE 

Broadway and Shell Road, Elmhurst 
(Newtown) 

Built in i66i by Captain Samuel Moore, 
son of Rev. John Moore who laid out 
Newtown. The house has remained in the 
family ever since. 




BOWNE HOUSE 



Bowne Ave. 



and Washington 
Flushino;. 



Street, 



Built in i66i by John Bowne and used for 
forty years as a meeting place of Quakers. 
The house stands today, inside and out- 
side, much as it was when first built, and 
has remained in the family ever since. 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

THE GROWTH OF NEW YORK MADE 
QUEENS BOROUGH 




HE story of the development of Queens Borough and the growth 
of New York City as a whole are inseparable. The reasons 
for the industrial, commercial and financial supremacy of New 
York City must be understood in order to properly lead up to 
the subject of this publication. 
Why is New York City the largest and most important city, not only in the 
United States or in the Western Hemisphere, but in the entire world? Why is 
it the greatest industrial and financial center of the United States ? Why do 50% 
of the imports and exports of the United States go through the Port of New 
York? Why are over 10% of all of the factories of the United States to be 
found within the five boroughs of New York? Why is New York the terminal 
of practically every American railroad? 




Airplane View of New York and its Wonderful Harbor 
The Borough of Queens is Shown Between the Broad White Lines 



New York City 9 

THE GROWTH OF QUEENS BOROUGH WILL 
NOW REMAKE NEW YORK 

One hundred years ago New York City did not lead either in population, 
industry or commerce, for the ports of Boston, Philadelphia, and Charleston 
handled a commerce as great, if not greater, at that time than New York City. 

The six main reasons for its growth from a population of less than 100,000 
in 1800 to a metropolis of over 6,000,000 in 1920 may be briefly summarized as 
follows : 

1. Nature's gift of an ideal, land-locked harbor with deep water. 

2. The opening of the Erie Canal in 1825 

3. The use of steel and concrete in building construction enabling the City to 
grow vertically. 

4. The inauguration of rapid transit permitting the City to grow horizontally. 

5. The utilization of electric power. 

6. The annexation of adjoining territory through legislative enactment. 










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Compliments of Department of Docks, City of New York 
Murray Hulhert, Commissioner of Docks and Director of the Port 



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1. Tke Port of New York 

Great wars have been waged to secure for other Nations what nature gave 
America — a great port, an ideal land-locked harbor, perfectly accessible to all 
other great ports, and a natural market for the raw products of all the countries 
of the world. No other harbor in the United States rivals the harbor of New 
York in size. The Port of New York, including New Jersey waterfront, has 
771 miles of shore proper, and today 986 miles of waterfront measured along 
shore and around piers. Of this last figure 21% is in Queens Borough. The 
Port of New York is peculiarly favored also in the area of its harbor, which is 
sufficiently large to permit the anchorage and maneuvering of a large number of 
vessels. Steamship companies can dock their boats in close proximity to the 
very heart of the city, to its important markets, its large mercantile establishments, 
and its leading hotels. 

How little did Hendrick Hudson dream when on September 11th, 1609. as 
the "Half Moon" was cautiously guided through the Narrows and anchored in 
full view of Manhattan Island, that it would, within three centuries, become the 
home of Europe's overflowing population. 

2. Tne Erie Canal (Now Know^n as the State Barge Canal) 

George Washington, it is related, with wonderful foresight, nearly 50 years 
before the Erie Canal was opened to commerce through the State of New York, 
solemnly warned the states of Virginia and Maryland to prepare without delay 
to grasp for their own the commerce of the interior of the country by building 
and opening a water route from the Atlantic across the Alleghenies to the Great 
Lakes and the Mississippi. He predicted that New York would some day open 
water communication between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, stating 
that commerce when once fairly established in any channel can be deflected only 
with the greatest difficulty, if at all. Virginia at that time had a larger population 
and commerce than New York but was deaf to the warning of her greatest son. 
The result was that New York became the chief port and the commercial metrop- 
olis of the United States and the trade of the West flowed from and to the sea- 
board by way of the Hudson River, the Erie Canal and the Great Lakes. 

The Erie Canal, opened in 1825, marked a new epoch in the history of 
transportation in this country. It served as the most direct route for bringing 
grain from the West to New York City for trans-shipment to all parts of the 
world. (This was before the era of railroad construction, which did not start 
until after 1830). It marked the turning point in the development of New York 
City and State. 

New York became the "Empire State" as a result of the opening of the 
Erie Canal, a position that it has uninterruptedly held ever since. Boston and 



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Philadelphia both had a greater ships tonnage in 1790, Boston had a greater ton- 
nage in 1800 and 1810; but between 1820 and 1830, New York took the lead and 
held it. Naturally, therefore, the Port of New York immediately had the advan- 
tage over its rivals on the Atlantic Ocean for grain commerce. Ships from all 
over the world came to New York for this valuable freight, bringing with them 
not only the products of those countries, which served as raw material for manu- 
facturing, but also hundreds of thousands of immigrants who settled in New 
York and vicinity. This created both an abundant labor supply and plenty of 
raw materials which was, and is, an ideal condition for manufacturing. 

The Erie Canal gave New York cheaper freight rates which is the magic key 
that spells production. The first through rail line between New York and Chi- 
cago was opened in 1852 and it was not long before the competition between the 
rail and water routes was keen. It is contended that the present schedule of class 
rates between New York and Chicago was determined by the competition afforded 
by the water routes. The other trunk line railroads, in their effort to secure a 
share of the grain commerce, sought terminals at New York and an intense rivalry 
in rates began, which, for a long period, gave New York a decided advantage 
over all other Atlantic ports. 

3. Tke Use of Steel ana Concrete in Builaing Construction 

The continuous rebuilding of New York City with steel and concrete, where 
brick and stone were used, is the most talked about single instance in the life 
of the city. Strangers write magazine articles about it and old New Yorkers 
coming up out of the subway at unfamiliar stations find skyscrapers, where six 
story brick buildings formerly stood. 

The reason is simple. The foundations must be built to support the weight 
of the entire building. Using brick and stone, it is not practicable to build much 
over six stories as the thickness of the supporting walls at the street level become 
too wide. By the use of steel for the frame work with hollow tile walls hung 
almost like curtains, the weight of a 25 or 50 story building can be carried to 
concrete foundations reaching far into the earth without any appreciable greater 
width at the street level. 

The city then began to grow vertically, and an ever increasing population, 
equal to city after city, was piled in layers one on top of the other. 

4. The Inauguration oi Rapid Transit 

Huge office buildings, apartment houses and hotels brought about a greater 
congestion in travel, and additional transportation problems faced the city. 

Rapid transit permitted the City to expand — to grow hori::ontaU\. First 
came the horse cars, and the elevated roads with trains of wooden cars drawn by 



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little steam engines ; then came the electrified trolley lines and elevated railroads ; 
then came the new subways and tunnels with their steel express trains ; and 
lastly, the electrification of such railroads entering New York as the New York 
Central, the New York, New Haven and Hartford, the Long Island Railroad, and 
the Pennsyvania Railroad with their huge terminals and their tunnels under the 
adjoining rivers. 

As the City continued to grow, its expansion eastward was at first limited 
by the East River, which acted as a barrier. It therefore followed the line of 
least resistance and grew northward embracing Harlem, Washington Heights 
and the Bronx. 

With the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, however, in 1883, the gradual 
rounding out of the city began. New bridges and tunnels were opened to Brooklyn 
and the population of that Borough increased from 600,000 in 1880 to over 
2,000,000 in 1920. 

In 1900, when the first subway was being built from the Battery to the Bronx, 
that Borough only had a population of 200,000, but as a result of this rapid 
transit its population has become 700,000 in 1920— an increase of 500,000 in 20 
years. 

The Bronx grew ahead of Queens only because it was easier to build tunnels 
under, and construct bridges over, the Harlem River than the East River. Its 
real growth, however, did not begin until after the subway was placed in opera- 
tion in 1904. 

The people of any city are, in a way, comparable to electricity, for they travel 
"along the line of least resistance." Two million residents of New York travel 
daily on the subway and elevated lines between their homes, shops and offices. 

In the past, the line of least resistance has been the longest line of travel. 
The vast armv of employees in Manhattan would travel daily many miles north- 




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ward to the Bronx, and many miles southward and eastward' to Brooklyn, to 
reach their homes. With the opening of all of the new transportation lines east- 
ward into Queens Borough, the line of least resistance has now become the short- 
est line of travel, and the development in population and industry which has 
taken place in Brooklyn and the Bronx will be repeated during the next ten years 
in the Borough of Queens. 

Prior to 1909, the only means of direct transportation from Queens Borough 
to Manhattan was by ferry across the East River from the foot of either Borden 
Avenue, or Fulton Street, Long Island City, to 34th Street and to 92nd Street, 
Manhattan. Before that time indirect communciation was possible through the 
Borough of Brooklyn and the tunnels and bridges connecting it with Manhattan. 

The first link joining Manhattan and Queens, and eliminating the East 
River as a barrier to the spread of population and commerce eastward, was the 
opening of the Queensboro Bridge in March 1909 for trolley and vehicular traffic. 

The second link was the inauguration on September 10th, 1910 of the silent, 
swift and smokeless electric train service from the magnificient Pennsylvania 
Station at 33rd Street and 7th Avenue, Manhattan, through the tunnels under 
the East River and over 70 miles of tracks of the Long Island Railroad in Queens, 
serving every section of the Borough. 

The third link was the opening of the "Queensboro Subway" on June 22, 
1915, from Long Island City through the tunnels under the East River to 42nd 
Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, connecting with the Interborough 
Subway System in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. 




The Battery in 1920. 



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The fourth link was the completion of the New York Connecting Railroad 
Bridge in 1917 over the East River at Hell Gate, providing an all rail route be- 
tween Queens Borough and the New England States and saving on an average 
24 hours in the shipment of freight. 

The fifth link was the operation on July 23rd, 1917 of the Second Avenue 
"L" across the upper level of the Queensboro Bridge, bringing into close touch 
the most congested section of the city on the East Side of Manhattan with the 
least developed portions in the Borough of Queens. 

The sixth link was the operation in the spring of 1920 of the Brooklyn Rapid 
Transit trains, through the new tunnels under the East River at 60th Street, to 
the Bridge Plaza Station in Long Island City and connecting with the rapid 
transit extensions to Astoria and Corona. 

5. Tke Utilization oi Electricity 

While the use of electricity applies to all cities, it has a special application 
to New York for without it we would not have the modern rapid transit systems, 
the tall office buildings, the huge hotels and apartment houses. Electric power is 
required for the operation, lighting and heating of the surface, subway, elevated 
and railroad trains. Electric light is required for the office buildings, hotels and 
apartment houses. Without electrically operated elevators, the skyscrapers of 
New York would not be possible. 




B. F. Smith, Jr., Artist Collectiou of Percy R. Pync, 2nc 

Looking Southward from 42nd Street in 1855. 



New York City 



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6. The Annexation of Adjoining Territory 

Then again, New York City has grown by certain Acts of the State Legis- 
lature, consolidating adjoining communities as boroughs of the Greater City. 
A metropolis grows first by its natural expansion ; then leaps forward by adding 
large areas to itself, taking into the city over night many villages and settlements; 
and, thereupon, proceeds to consolidate its position by filling up the intervening 
area with rows of homes, stores and factories. 

New York City in 1898 absorbed the large areas of Queens, Brooklyn, and 
Richmond, including as they did a chain of former villages, some of them as old 
as Manhattan itself. Today, New York City extends from Long Island Sound 
to the Atlantic Ocean, stretching across the backbone of Long Island through the 
Borough of Queens. The old city lines have been abolished and rapid transit 
extensions are rapidly obliterating all traces of the former city limits. 




Times Square in 1920. 
Looking Southward from 44th Street. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 
Long Island City — ^Old and New 




THE PAYNTAR HOMESTEAD 

Jackson Ave. and Queensboro Bridge 
Plaza, Long Island City. 

Torn down recently to give way to the 
advance of industry and commerce into 
Queens Borough. 

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Another view of the Bridge Plaza in 1920 
showing the Brewster automobile factory 
and the "Electric Building" in which are 
the offices of the Queensboro Chamber of 
Commerce. 

From the million dollar rapid transit station 
at this point, subway and elevated cars 
operate to every section of New York 
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Jamaica — Old and New 




THE HISTORICAL KING MANOR 
Once the home of Rufus King, first 
Ambassador from the United States to 
Great Britain. 



BUSINESS CENTER OF JAMAICA 

showing Jamaica Ave. "L" extension 
operated by Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co., 
to Brooklyn and Manhattan for single 
fare. 



New York City 



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THE WATERFRONT 




EW York's harbor and the rivers which flow into it have made 
the city the MetropoHs of the Western Hemisphere. Without 
this great asset New York would not transact 50 per cent of 
the total foreign commerce of the United States nor would 
ninety per cent of the trans-Atlantic passenger traffic pass 
through this gateway. 

Just as New York's original site was determined by its harbor, and its growth 
in the past has been based upon its waterfront, so its future greatness is pre- 
dicated upon the further development and efficient utilization of its hundreds of 
miles of waterfront. 

The 315 square miles of land included in the five boroughs are so divided 
and indented by nearly 175 square miles of water as to give it a total water- 
frontage, as measured along the shore line, of 578 miles, all within the city limits. 
A straight line 578 miles in length, would extend from New York City to Charles- 
ton, South Carolina. 

Thirty-four per cent of this natural waterfrontage of New York City is in 
the Borough of Queens — a substantial asset which gives Queens a marked com- 
mercial superiority. 

The East River and Flushing Bay are the western and northern boundaries 
of the Borough. On the south, for a distance of four miles, Newtown Creek 
is the dividing line between Queens Borough and Brooklyn. Further to the 
south, the vast expanse of Jamaica Bay and its numerous islands again divides 
the two boroughs. The Atlantic Ocean is the extreme southern boundary, and 
the ten miles of beaches on the Rockaway Shore are unexcelled from Maine to 
Atlantic City. 

The adoption, in 1913, of the Dual Subway System brought about the con- 
struction and operation of rapid transit extensions into Queens Borough from 
Manhattan and Brooklyn. To a large extent, the rapid transit problem of New 
York was solved by this comprehensive system of transportation. The most 
important problem facing the city today is the adoption of a similar compre- 
hensive plan for the development of its entire waterfront. Federal, state and 
city officials should cooperate in the preparation of such plans as will coordinate 
these great resources of the city. No plan will he complete, hozvever, unless 
thorough consideration is given to the facilities which Queens Borough has to 
ojfer with its 200 miles of shore line. 

Three vast waterway improvements — the Panama Canal, the New York 



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State Barge Canal, and the Intra-Coastal Waterway — will bring more commerce 
from the sea and from the interior to the Port of New York. 

The Panama Canal has enormous commercial possibilities for New York, 
opening new markets both in the United States and in the Far East to the manu- 
facturers and shippers of this city. It is causing a general readjustment of world 
trade routes. Oriental goods will come direct to New York instead of being 
trans-shipped by rail at San Francisco or Seattle. Goods manufactured in New 
York can compete in the markets on the Pacific Coast with those produced in the 
Middle West. 

The Intra-Coastal Waterway, almost unknown to a majority of New York- 
ers, will give a continuous land-locked waterway from Boston, through Cape Cod 
Bay, Cape Cod Canal, and Long Island Sound, into the East River, along the 
shores of Queens Borough, to New York Harbor ; and then through the canals, 
rivers, bays and sounds down the entire Atlantic coast, around Florida and th^ 
Gulf of Mexico, to the mouth of the Rio Grande, at the Mexican border. It will 
cost a total of more than $100,000,000, and will stimulate the coastal commerce 
to New York. 

The advantages of Flushing Bay in connection with this great coastal water- 
way are unusual, and doubtless it will not be long before many of the coastwise 
boat lines will maintain docks in this ideal harbor for the receipt and delivery 
of freight. The Red Star Towing Co., recently purchased 6 acres with 1,000 ft. 
of waterfront for development. 

The New York State Barge Canal, the advantages of which are described 
at greater length elsewhere, will bring a greater tonnage from the Great Lakes 
for use both in New York and for trans-shipment to domestic and foreign ports. 

Although the present facilities in New York for handling this growing com- 
merce are limited, the two hundred miles of waterfront of Queens Borough offer 
a solution for the future development of the Port of New York. 

The many miles of valuable waterfront in Queens still remaining undeveloped 
along Newtown Creek, the East River, Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek and Jamaica 
Bay have every advantage for immediate improvement. 

The Borough of Queens has 196.8 miles of natural waterfront; 39.5 miles 
of improvements, or developed waterfront, as measured around piers and along 
the heads of slips ; or a total of 219.5 miles of waterfront measured around the 
natural shore line and piers. This represents approximately 34 per cent of the 
natural waterfront, 14 per cent of the developed frontage, and 29 per cent of 
the entire waterfrontage of the entire City of New York. This is clearly shown 
by the following table : 



New York City 19 

Developed Water Total Length 

FroTLtaee' ( Measured ( Mea.sured 

Ltenffth of arooicd piers and around piers 

Borough Shore Line heads o^f slips) and shore, lines) 

Queens 196.8 miles 39.5 miles 219.5 miles 

Brooklyn 201.5 " 102.7 " 258.9 " 

Bronx 79.8 " 19.8 " 89.0 " 

Richmond 57.1 " 32.6 " 82.0 " 

Manhattan 43.2 " 76.8 " 96.4 " 

Total 578.4 " 271.4 •' 745.8 " 

The Merchants' Association in 1914, after studying the traffic and terminal 
facilities of the city, stated : 

"It is the opinion of this Association that immediate steps should be 
taken to promote and secure the adoption of a comprehensive plan for 
the development of the Port of New York. The need for such a plan 
rests primarily in the facts : 

(A) That no general plan or movement has ever been made to utilize 
the many acres of the Port that possess economic and physical 
advantages. 

(B) That competition within certain restricted areas has raised the 
value of land, wharf and terminal sites to an amount where the 
interest and rental charges thereof are increasing the cost to the 
shipper and consumer beyond economic necessity. 

(C) That the efforts of public authorities and private interests have 
heretofore been directed solely toward the remedying of and 
planning for restricted areas which comprise only a few of the 
units of the entire port problem." 

Murray Hulbert, Commissioner of Docks of the City of New York, states 
that while it is of course speculative how far realty values will be affected by the 
proposed waterfront improvements, calculations based upon an estimate of the 
Department of Taxes and Assessments, demonstrate that $100,000,000 expended 
on harbor improvement would add $1,330,000,000 to the real estate valuation of 
the city. (In other words, for every dollar spent on waterway improvements, 
thirteen dollars would be added to the real estate values of the city). 

The average person scarcely comprehends the influence of our harbor on 
each phase of the everyday life of our city. Let anything interfere with the con- 
tinuous movement of ships in and out of New York and the city would suffer as 
if shaken by an earthquake, business would totter, the great retail trade would 
disintegrate and real estate values would take an inconceivable tumble. 



20 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

FOREIGN TRADE 

One advantage which Queens Borough offers to manufacturers, either for 
their main plants or for the estabhshment of branch plants, is the cheapness and 
convenience of handling their foreign trade. 

There are several factors which contribute to the Port of New York handling 
50 per cent of the imports and exports of the country. The first is the fact that 
New York is the terminus of nine great railroad systems (New York Central; 
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western ; Baltimore & Ohio ; Erie Railroad ; Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad; New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad; Lehigh Valley 
Railroad; Central Railroad of New Jersey; and Long Island Railroad), which 
handle more tonnage of diversified freight than any other group of railroads in 
the world. 

Freight seeks the port equipped not only with the best terminal facilities, but 
from which there are the greatest number of boats sailing to foreign and coast- 
wise ports. Other Atlantic and Gulf ports may have considerable export freight 
but as they do not attract imports, boat service to and from them is more or less 
irregular. In other words, manufacturers shipping from New York are assured 
that their products will move with greater dispatch. If their shipments miss one 
vessel another will probably sail to the same port within a few days. At other 
ports it might be a matter of weeks or even a month before their goods would be 
forwarded, with interest charges on capital invested piling up on the goods thus 
delayed, not mentioning the inconvenience to both the buyer and seller from the 
delay. 

The ability of the Port of New York to furnish cargo in and out has given 
it a position of preeminence. Steamship companies from all over the world 
maintain regular sailings to and from New York. Manufacturers located in 
Queens can truck their shipments to any of the several hundred piers throughout 
the city. 

NEWTOWN CREEK 

Newtown Creek, which is known as the "busiest waterway of its size in the 
world." is a tidal arm of the East River, dividing the Boroughs of Queens and 
Brooklyn for a distance of four miles. It empties into the East River directly 
opposite 34th Street, Manhattan. 

The importance of this stream is strikingly shown by comparing its activities 
with those of the Mississippi River, which from New Orleans to St. Paul is 1,000 
miles in length and flows through the heart of a great industrial section. Accord- 
ing to recent figures, 5,500,000 tons of freight are carried annually on the upper 
and lower reaches of this longest river in the world. While for the three years 
1915-16-17, the tonnage on the four miles of Newtown Creek averaged 5,620,000 



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tons. The value of the tonnage on the Mississippi River is approximately 
$100,000,000 per annum, while on Newtown Creek, it has averaged more than 
$200,000,000 per annum for the past ten years. 

The chief commodities transported on this surprising waterway are copper 
ore and its products, petroleum, lumber, coal, chemicals and building materials. 
In 1917, 517,601 tons of copper ore and copper manufactures were transported 
on Newtown Creek — a tonnage valued at $230,000,000, which is an amount 
greater than the total value of all the manufactured products of either Kansas 
City, Minneapolis or San Francisco, and greater than the value of exports from 
Boston or Philadelphia. 

Huge oil refineries on both sides of the stream ship annually 250,000,0000 
gallons of petroleum. There is still room for growth both in the commerce on 
the stream and the manufacturing plants which now line its borders. There are 
large undeveloped tracts in Queens adjoining this stream such as the Degnon 
Terminal with huge industrial plants that have been erected during the past 
seven years, and where many more will be erected during the coming ten years. 
One of the largest undeveloped tracts of land at the head of the stream is the 150 
acre tract of the Palmer Waterfront Land and Improvement Company, in the 




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22 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Maspeth section, which is served by rail as well as water, and on which several 
large manufacturing plants have been located within the past few years. 

The character of tonnage on this waterway can best be shown by the follow- 
ing table for one recent year, 1917: 

y\^j-ticle Estimated Value Net Tons 

General Merchandise $ 8,734,301 132,602 

Coal and other fuel and cord wood 4,337,378 1,373,035 

Lumber, railroad ties and piles 6,940,388 443,027 

Steel and products 1,254,557 32,369 

Copper ore and products 180,275,507 413,837 

Petroleum 15,744,584 868,464 

Brick, (building and fire) 722,197 242,734 

Crushed stone 130,041 155,309 

Gravel and sand 450,198 656,908 

Cement, lime, etc 1,855,511 306,519 

Paving blocks 32,275 31,164 

Plaster, whiting, sulphur, chalk, etc 506,505 58,262 

Fertilizer and steam bone 632,702 88,109 

Ice 141,279 47,093 

Ashes, cinders and slag 85,670 100,890 

Molasses 528,000 48,768 

All other materials 4,490,916 155,404 

TOTAL — . . .$226,862,015 5,154,500 

The Federal Government is now starting dredging operations which will 
provide for a channel varying from 250 to 125 feet in width, and 20 to 18 feet 
in depth, at mean low water, from the East River to the head of navigation in 
the creek. The mean range of tide is 4^4 feet. More than 1,475,000 cubic yards 
will be dredged from the channel. The appropriation of $510,000 for this work, 
included in the Rivers and Harbors Bill of 1919, was secured through the joint 
efforts of the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce and Congressman Charles Pope 
Caldwell. 

The tonnage and value for the 10 years — 1908 to 1918 inclusive — is given in 
the following table : 

Year Tonnage Value 

1908 4,181,528 $229,994,000 

1909 5,113,628 253,003,000 

1910 3,861,852 139,378,000 

1911 5,435,016 191,747,000 

1912 4,921,843 225,416,000 

1913 5,141,516 226,962.000 

1914 4,445,556 147,739,000 

1915 5,756,102 147,086,000 

1916 5,915,150 201,581,000 

1917 5,215,820 294,701,000 

1918 4,369,136 322,960,000 

TOTAL 54,337,197 $2,380,567,000 

AVERAGE PER YEAR. . . 5,433,719 238,056,700 



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Some further idea of the immense commerce of this waterway can be obtained 
from the figures compiled by the Department of Plant and Structures of New 
York City, which show that during the year 1918, 59,389 boats passed through 
the Vernon Avenue Bridge, 56,735 passed through the Greenpoint Avenue Bridge, 
27,000 through the Meeker Street Bridge and 5,007 through the Grand Street 
Bridge. 

Steamers schooners and unrigged vessels are the principal freight carriers. 
Their drafts range from 5>^ to 20 feet; 2 to 19 feet; 2 to 18 feet respectively. 
Some steamers of still larger draft lighter in their cargoes. 

Among the larger plants on the Queens shore of Newtown Creek are the 
National Sugar Refining Company, Nichols Copper Company, National Enam- 
eling and Stamping Company, General Chemical Company, Standard Oil Refin- 
eries. American Agricultural Chemical Company, and the Wrigley Chewing Gum 
Company. 

DUTCH KILLS CREEK 

During 1914 bulkhead lines were established by the United States Govern- 
ment for Dutch Kills Creek, a tributary of Newtown Creek, thus putting this 
stream under the jurisdiction of the War Department. The bulkhead lines as 
approved on October 29, 1914, give a width varying from 200 feet at its junction 
with Newtown Creek to 150 feet at the head of the stream, and include a large 
basin in the Degnon Terminal where car floats can be docked. The widths of the 
channel to be dredged under the appropriation of $510,000 mentioned previously, 
range from 160 feet at Newtown Creek to 75 feet at the turning basin. The 
Long Island Railroad plans to establish at this point a large wholesale public 
market, estimated to cost nearly $5,000,000. 

Among the larger industrial plants in the Degnon Terminal served by this 
stream are: Loose Wiles Biscuit Company, American Ever Ready Works, White 
Motor Company, Sawyer Biscuit Company, Defender Manufacturing Company, 
Pittsburg Plate Glass Company, Marcus Ward, Brett Lithograph Company, 
Waldes, Inc., Norma Company of America, Manhattan-Rome Company, Amer- 
ican Chicle Co. and The Palmolive Co. 

EAST RIVER 

Elaborate plans have been prepared by the United States Government engi- 
neers for the improvement of the East River from the Battery to Long Island 
Sound. The plans include the dredging of a 40-foot channel as far north as the 
Oueensboro Bridge and the removal of existing shoals and reefs, a 40-foot chan- 
nel on the west side of Blackwell's Island, a 30-foot channel on the east side 
of Blackwell's Island adjacent to the Long Island City shore, and the deepening 
and widening of Hell Gate and the removal of dangerous shoals. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 




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Courtesy of E. W. Spofford — Copyright igi6. 

Airplane view of Queens Borough's 200 miles of water front looking East 
from mid-town Manhattan. 

The East River in the foreground, Newtown Creek on the right, Flushing Bay 
on the left, and Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean in the distance. 



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This vast water front, representing 34% of Jthe entire water frontage of 
New York City, is a substantial commercial asset giving Queens Borough unusual 
industrial advantages. 

Congress has recognized its value by appropriating large amounts for the 
deepening and widening of the channels in the East River, Newtown Creek, Flush- 
ing Bay and Jamaica Bay. 



26 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

The completion of this project will develop a more symmetrical harbor for 
New York and relieve the present congestion of water traffic in the North River. 
The improvement is an important part of the Intra-Coastal Waterway. An 
original appropriation of $1,250,000 was included in the 1917 Rivers and Harbors 
Bill for beginning the work; the cost of the entire project will be approximately 
$37,000,000. 

The improvement of the East River will permit an increase in the number 
of vessels of large tonnage using the River. Many vessels which can now only 
come in at high stages of the tide, owing to the lack of sufficient channel depth, 
complete their cargoes in upper New York Bay by lighter. It will enable steam- 
ships to use the shorter and safer inside route through Long Island Sound, rather 
than the Atlantic Ocean, to reach New York. It will give an additional entrance 
and exit for the battleships of our Navy, increasing their efficiency in protecting 
New York in the event of an attack by a fleet of foreign battleships. 

The plans also include a deepening of the channel known as "Bronx Kills," 
which will give a direct route from the Harlem River into Flushing Bay. At 
present it is necessary for boats coming from the Hudson River, through the 
Harlem River, to take a circuitous route around both Randall's Island and Ward's 
Island and through Hell Gate to reach Flushing Bay. This is of special import- 
ance for the future development of Flushing Bay and the accessibility of the 
Barge Canal Terminal located there. 

Marginal Freight Railroad. — The location of two Barge Canal Terminals 
on the East River in Long Island City and Astoria has given considerable impetus 
to the project of a proposed marginal freight railroad along the East River as a 
further development of the waterfront of this section. The construction of such 
a freight railroad, with its float bridges, classification yards, etc., similar to that 
proposed for the waterfront in South Brooklyn, would give direct rail connec- 
tions to the shippers of this section with every railroad system entering the port 
of New York. 

Oxiecnshoro Terminal. — This terminal, which was opened on July 1, 1914, is 
located on the East River and Vernon Avenue, between 13th and 14th Streets, 
Long Island City, and is a branch of the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, 
which has been in operation since 1876, and which today handles over two mil- 
lion tons of freight a year. Shipments may be made through this terminal to 
and from all railroads in the United States (except Pennsylvania R. R.) with 
the same dispatch and freight rates as though delivered to or received from the 
separate freight stations of railroads in Manhattan, thus saving large cartage 
charges to shippers located in Queens Borough. 



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QUEENSBORO TERMINAL ON EaST RiVER 

The tonnage handled by this terminal for the first 5 years since its opening 
is as follows : 

1914—1915 24.310 tons 

1915—1916 32,819 " 

1916—1917 31,054 " 

^ 1917—1918 30,004 " 

1918—1919 25,882 " 

Total 144,069 tons 

Public Docks. — There are four public docks located on the East River water- 
front in Long Island City, all of which are under the jurisdiction of the Depart- 
ment of Docks of New York City. They are located as follows : 

1. Foot of Nott Avenue 

2. Foot of West Avenue 

3. Foot of Broadway 

4. Foot of Jamaica Avenue 

These docks can be used by the manufacturers and shippers of Queens Bor- 
ough to the extent determined upon by the District Superintendent (Telephone 
Astoria 159). Shippers who are not located on the waterfront are thus given 
equal advantages in the receipt and delivery of their freight by water. Cargoes 
of brick, lumber, coal, crushed stone, building material, sand, gravel, etc., can 
be unloaded from barges, lighters, scows or schooners at these docks. The 
wharfage rates can be obtained upon application, but in general are 2c. per ton 
up to 200 tons, and j/>c per ton for any excess over that amount. 



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FLUSHING BAY— FLUSHING CREEK 

Great strides have been made in the past ten years in the development of 
Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek as commercial waterways. They hold a 
stragetical commercial position, located, as they are, directly opposite the Harlem 
Ship Canal and at a point where the East River broadens into Long Island Sound. 
Flushing Bay is about 12 miles by water northeast of the Battery and 6 miles by 
highway, from the Queensboro Bridge. It is about two miles in length with 
widths A^arying from 300 feet to 1^ miles. 

Flushing Creek is a tidal stream tributary to Flushing Bay and extends 3^ 
miles inland. 

The first project adopted by the United States Government for the improve- 
ment of Flushing Bay was on March 3, 1879, and provided for making and main- 
taining a channel 6 feet deep at low water, at an estimated cost of $173,500. 

Bulkhead lines have been established for both Flushing Bay and Flushing 
Creek by the United States. The lines for Flushing Creek were originally estab- 
lished March 6, 1911 and amended October 29, 1918. The lines, as amended, are 
250 feet apart from the mouth of the Creek three miles inland ; and 200 feet 
apart for the last half mile, extending in a straight line to the head of tide water, 
or what is known as the "Head of the Vleigh." 

It is believed that the future needs of this stream will require a greater width 
than those fixed by the present bulkhead lines, and in 1913 the Commerce Com- 




East River at Whitestone 



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mittee of the Chamber advocated a width of 300 feet in a straight line from the 
mouth of the Creek to the head of the proposed improvement. Several hearings 
and conferences were held at that time with the officials of the Federal and City 
governments and the abutting property owners, but due to the existing docks and 
improvements on the east side of the stream, and the unwillingness of the owners 
on the west side to cede the necessary land for the widening, the plan was 
abandoned. 

Steps were then taken to secure appropriations from the United States Gov- 
ernment for dredging a deeper channel. Through the combined efforts of the 
Chamber and former Congressman John J. Kindred, an appropriation of $255,- 
700 was included in the Rivers and Harbors Bill of 1913. This was the first 
appropriation made since the original project was adopted for a 6-foot channel 
in 1879. Contract was awarded for dredging a channel 200 feet in width and 10 
feet deep in March 1914. The work was completed in 1915 from the East River 
near College Point to a point in the Creek at the Jackson Avenue Bridge. 

In order to dredge a deeper channel in Flushing Creek, beyond the Jackson 
Avenue Bridge, it v.^as necessary for the City of New York to secure title to all 
land between the established bulkhead lines. A bill v/as passed in 1913 by the 
New York State Legislature "granting to the City of New York such right, title, 
and interest as the State of New York may have in and to land under water in 
Flushing Creek and Flushing Bay." This legislation enables the City of New 
York to exchange title with abutting property owners to compensate them for 
any necessary upland taken to dredge between the established bulkhead lines. 
Further legislation was introduced and adopted which am.ended the Charter of 
the City of New York so as to permit the inclusion of bvilkhead lines as a part 
of the city map. 

Proceedings are now under way for the acquisition of title by the City. The 




Bridge over Flushing Creek at Jackson Avenue 



30 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

rule maps, prepared by the Topographical Bureau, are ready for submission to 
the Board of Estimate. The Damage Maps, showing each parcel of land and 
owner, are being prepared, and will be ready by the summer of 1920. Title will 
then be vested in the city to all upland between the bulkhead lines — title to land 
under water already being vested in the city by legislative enactment. 

Just as soon as these steps have been completed, the U. S. Government will 
proceed with the deepening and widening of the channel in Flushing Creek. 

It is understood that the Government engineers have plans prepared for 
deepening the channel in Flushing Bay in the near future from its present depth 
of 10 feet, at mean low water, to 17 feet. 

Industrial and Commercial Dcvclopmeni — Large undeveloped tracts of land 
are available on all sides of Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek at a low cost per 
acre, suitable for industrial, commercial and residential development. One of 
the important undertakings that has rapidy progressed in this section is the work 
of the Flushing Bay Improvement Company, which, for the past nine years, has 
been filling in some 400 acres of the low-lying salt meadows on the west side of 
the Creek to 12 feet above mean high water. This stupendous task, which calls 
for a fill of 8,000,000 cubic yards, is being carried forward at the rate of several 
thousand cubic yards per day with ashes and excavated material from Brooklyn, 
brought by means of scows and special dump cars of the Long Island Railroad. 
It is understood to be the intention of the owners of this tract to develop same 
for factory sites. The section has the advantage of both water and rail shipping 
facilities. A street system has been laid out by the Topographical Department 
for this area wnth marginal waterway streets running parallel to Flushing Creek, 
which will afiford an opportunity to load direct from a ship or barge into the 
warehouse or factory. 

The Long Island Railroad owns a tract of land adjacent to that of the Flush- 
ing Bay Improvement Company and has plans for an important railroad terminal 
and yard at this point. Car storage yards and repair shops for both the Inter- 
borough Rapid Transit and Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains will be located on the 
Flushing Meadows in connection with the extension of the Corona "L" to 
Flushing. 

The Degnon Realty and Terminal Company also owns a large tract of land 
which they are improving for manufacturing sites. They have dredged a 30-foot 
channel in Flushing Bay along the shore line of their property, hydraulically 
pumping the bottom of the channel for the "fill" to raise the grade of their 
upland. 

This section is within 16 minutes running time, on the Long Island Railroad, 
from Pennsylvania vStation, Manhattan, and 22 minutes running time from Grand 
Central Station, via the Queensboro Subway, over the Corona "L" extension, 



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which will be extended in the near future across the meadows to Flushing. Trains 
of both the I. R. T. and B. R. T. will operate to this section, giving rapid transit 
facilities for a single fare to all sections of New York City. It is one of the few 
remaining places in New York for mammoth and unobstructed factory and ware- 
house development. During the next 10 years a development will undoubtedly 
take place in this locality that will transform it from its present barren condition 
to a huge industrial community. 

The State of New York acquired in 1914 over 400 feet frontage on Flush- 
ing Bay near the mouth of Flushing Creek where work is now in progress on the 
construction of a Barge Canal Terminal as part of the canal system of New York 
State. 

A tentative plan was prepared by the Dock Department of New York City 
in 1913 for the development of the whole westerly shore of Flushing Bay from 
Sanford's Point to Jackson Avenue for a freight terminal. The plan provided 
for the extension of the shore line and the construction of a marginal street along 
the outer edge of which would be built a set of railroad tracks with spurs leading 
out to the end of a series of 1000 foot piers. The plan, as prepared, showed 16 
piers, 200 feet in width with docking basins 300 feet wide. 

That this whole industrial scheme has possibilities for realization in the near 
future is the opinion of men who are keeping an eye on the industrial trend of 
Queens Borough. 

Commercial Statistics. — The principal commodities handled on these water- 
ways are coal and other fuel, cement, lime, lumber, gravel and sand, ashes and 
cinders. The draft of loaded vessels varies from 2 to 14 fe'^t. The bulk of 
freight is carried in scows and in schooners. The following lo a statement of the 
tonnage and value for 10 recent years : 

Year Short Tons Value 

1908 126.458 $1,774,900 

1909 277,300 879.700 

1910 563,029 . 1,256,880 

1911 394,328 3,251,548 

1912 942.614 989,745 

1913 917,561 969,011 

1914 858,714 968,461 

1915 677,460 1,066.295 

1916 710,547 1,137,195 

1917 1,355,620 3,508,600 

1918 335,801 1,251.323 

TOTAL 7,159,432 $17,053,658 



32 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

FLUSHING BAY- JAMAICA BAY CANAL 

For many years there has been an effort made to have the State of New York 
construct a canal connecting Flushing Bay and Jamaica Bay in order to provide 
a short-cut from the Hudson River through the Harlem River, Flushing Bay 
and the said canal for canal boats bound for Jamaica Bay. No appropriation has 
been made, however, by the State of New York for its construction. 

The route selected begins at Cornell Basin of the Jamaica Bay channel, 
bending westerly across the ridge between the creek and the next 
valley to the west, crosses the Ridgewood acqvieduct west of Three-mile Millroad, 
and Rockaway Boulevard about a quarter of a mile west of the junction with 
Rockaway Road, then follows the natural valley through the present farms, cross- 
ing Hawtree Creek road near its junction with Lincoln Avenue, and Liberty Ave- 
nue just east of Van Wyck Avenue. From Liberty Avenue the line runs just 
east of Van Wyck Avenue and nearly parallel to it. following the natural depress- 
ion to the railroad. It crosses the railroad just east of Dunton Station, thence 
northerly to the Maple Grove Cemetery property, crosses the summit of the main 
ridge in the cemetery, crosses Queens Boulevard, and thence down the ravine 
across the Union Turnpike to the meadows at the head of Flushing Creek to the 
200 foot channel planned by the United States Government, and follows this 
channel to Flushing Bay. 

Surveys of this proposed canal were m.ade by the state engineers in 1913, 
and a report made to the legislature on March 11, 1914. The estimate of the 
cost at that time was $20,338,000, which was based upon the assumption that New 
York City would construct the channel in Jamaica Bay, together with the basins 
extending from that channel ; also, that the Federal Government would con- 
struct the channel from the mouth of Flushing Creek to the head of the proposed 
improvement at Livingston Street. 

For a distance of about two miles through the upland in the center of the 
Borough, which is approximately 125 feet above the sea level, it is proposed to 
construct a double reinforced concrete tunnel having channels of 50 feet each 
with columns between the channels. The height of the top of the tunnel from 
the water level will be over 30 feet. The tunnel will extend a distance of approx- 
imately 10,800 feet, or from Union Turnpike to a point 800 feet south of Liberty 
Avenue. Such a tunnel would obviate the necessity of spanning highways with 
expensive bridges. The balance of the canal, however, will be an open cut 200 
feet in width. The minimum depth throughout the canal at low water would 
be 12 feet, and tidal locks or gates would have to be provided. 



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Proposed Harbor Improvements^ Showing Particularly the Route 
OF the Suggested Canal to Connect Flushing Bay and 

Jamaica Bay 






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Bathing Scene, Rockaway Coast 



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Such a canal would give a landlocked waterway the entire distance from 
Buffalo to Jamaica Bay and would enable the barge canal boats to bring their 
cargoes to the port now being developed at Jamaica Bay, where these cargoes 
could be transferred to ocean-going vessels. It would provide for the trans- 
portation of lumber, cement, coal and general merchandise into the heart of 
Queens Borough. The canal would also overcome the objection that has been 
raised by those who fear that barges could not, in heavy weather, safely make 
the passage from the Lower Bay in New York into the ocean entrance to Jamaica 
Bay by the way of Rockaway Inlet. 

JAMAICA BAY 

Jamaica Bay in the southern portion of the Borough is approximately eight 
miles long and four miles wide, and covers an area of about 20 square miles. 
It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Rockaway Peninsula (5th Ward 
of Queens Borough), and is connected with the Atlantic Ocean by a channel 
known as the "Rockaway Inlet," which is about eight miles east of the Narrows. 
A comprehensive plan adopted for the development of this great landlocked 
waterway includes a wide channel skirting the entire Bay, with several basins 
extending into the Queens Borough shore. The completion of this improvement 
will open for commercial, industrial, and residential development, a large terri- 
tory south of the Jamaica, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven sections of Queens 
Borough. 

The State of New York has granted the City of New York all right and 
title in and to all of the lands under water in Jamaica Bay for the creation of a 
new harbor in cooperation with the Federal Government. The project involves 
the dredging of an entrance channel and protecting it by riprap jetties ; and the 
dredging of a main interior channel along the west and north sides of the Bay at 
the expense of the United States Government. The City of New York is to 
make appropriations for dredging the basins, bulkheading the waterfront, and 
make suitable highway and railroad connections with the upland. It provides for 
making and maintaining a channel with a width of 500 feet and a depth of 18 
feet, at mean low water ; to be increased as the needs of commerce require and 
as may be further authorized by Congress, to a width of 1500 feet for the entrance 
channel and 1000 feet for the interior channel, and to a minimum depth of 30 
feet. The length of the channel included in the project is 12 miles. The mean 
range of tide is 4^> feet. 

The approved estimated cost to the United States for the original work is 
not to exceed $7,430,000 in any event ; to the City of New York, from $15,000,000 
to $70,000,000, according to the extent of the work undertaken. 



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The Finest Beaches on the Atlantic Ocean Are on the Rockaway Penninsula. 

Commercial Statistics. — The freight at present consists of coal, building 
material, lead, tin, mineral oil, road materials, fertilizing products, garbage and 
refuse to Barren Island. 

The tonnage and value during 6 recent years is as follows : 

Short Tons Value 

1912 425.551 $5,150,000 

1913 816,132 5.346,878 

1914 768,550 5.171,668 

1915 750.867 7,049,795 

1916 736.775 9,887,021 

1917 256.011 8.171.231 

In December 1919 an appropriation of $7,500,000 was made by the Board 
of Estimate of New York City for the construction of six 1000 foot piers. The 
appropriation was made, however, contingent upon the United States Govern- 
ment approving of increasing the depth of the present channel from 18 feet to 
30 feet, from Rockaway Inlet to the- head of Mill Basin. Just as soon as this 
change has been made by the Government, the above appropriation will be 
expended as follows : 

Bulkhead wall between Barren Island and Mill Basin. . .$1,500,000 

6 Piers 1000 feet long. 200 feet wide " 3,000,000 

6 Storage sheds 2.700,000 

Dredging Channel to 30 feet 300,000 

f TOTAL $7,500,000 



36 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

BARGE CANAL TERMINALS. 

As a result of the combined efforts of the Queens Chamber of Commerce 
and Borough President Maurice E. Connolly, the State of New York in Decem- 
ber 1914, acquired title to property on the waterfront of the Borough of Queens 
at three different locations for Barge Canal Terminals. These locations, which 
include a total water frontage of over a quarter of a mile, and approximately 10 
acres of land, are as follows : 

1. East River, north of Queensboro Bridge: — A strip 681 feet in length on 
the East River near the foot of Rogers Avenue and extending 150 feet inshore 
from the established bulkhead and pierhead lines, or approximately 104,700 
square feet. This location for a Barge Canal Terminal is well adapted to the 
present and future industrial and commercial needs of Long Island City. It has 
direct and easy access to the marginal waterfront street, namely, Vernon Avenue ; 
is only about 2,000 feet from the entrance of Queensboro Bridge itself, and 
geographically is admirably situated for any development along the waterfront. 
It is, moreover, centrally situated for the vast number of factories now located 
in Long Island City. 

The improvement of this site under Terminal Contract No. 217, of October 
23rd, 1918, provided for the repair of the existing bulkhead and for the con- 
struction of a freight house and crane track at a total of $75,000. 

Terminal Contract No. 42, dated November 13th, 1918, provided for paving 
the terminal site with granite block pavement at a total cost of $53,500. All of 
this work has been completed and the Barge Canal Terminal is ready for the use 
of receivers and shippers of freight. Additional contracts have been let for 
cranes and miscellaneous equpiment. 

Not only will barges from the State Canal be handled here, but as far as 
possible, all of the shipping that manufacturers in Queens desire to move by 
water. Superintendent Edward Walsh of the Department of Public Works of 
New York State has appointed a harbor master in charge of this terminal and 
another to be in charge of the terminal on Flushing Bay. 

2. Hallet's Cove, Astoria — The property acquired at this point on Llallet's 
Cove, a small indentation of the East River, extends 400 feet northerly from 
the foot of Broadway to a point between Camelia Street and Jamaica Avenue, 
comprises approximately 160,270 square feet in area, and extends from the 
Boulevard outshore to the bulkhead and pierhead line. The bulkhead and pier- 
head lines are coincident at this place, and it is possible for the State to excavate 
a basin in this large area whereby an extensive terminal can be laid out. The 
location is well adapted geographically for a terminal, as it has direct connection 
with several arteries of travel connecting Long Island City, Astoria and Flushing. 



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Location of Three Barge Canal Terminals on the Waterfront of 

Queens Borough 



Terminal Contract No. 45 was awarded to the Mohawk Dredge and Dock 
Company of Amsterdam, N. Y., on November 28, 1919, for the improvement of 
this terminal at an estimated cost of $255,275. The contract requires that the 
work shall be completed by May 28, 1921, and provides for the necessary exca- 
vation, construction of bulkhead walls, and grading. Further contract will be 
awarded for a freight house, cranes and miscellaneous ecjuipment. Facilities 
will be provided for handling bulk and miscellaneous freight. 

3. Head of Flushing Bay — The site selected has an approximate frontage 
of 400 feet on Flushing Bay, just west of the mouth of Flushing Creek and north 
of Jackson Avenue, and is about 400 feet in depth. It is admirably located and 
will serve not only the growing communities of Flushing, College Point, and 
Corona, but many other inland sections, such as Jamaica, Forest Hills, Richmond 
Hill, Bayside, Whitestone, etc. Notwithstanding the fact that navigation in 
Flushing Creek extends considerably further inland, the terminal as located will 
not be subject to the inconveniences of drawbridge navigation. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



Terminal Contract No. 43, awarded on July 25th, 1919 to McHarg-Barton 
Company of New York City for a total sum of $151,340, provides for excavating 
a terminal basin, constructing a bulkhead wall and a frame freight house. Con- 
tract is to be completed by July 25, 1920. Additional contract will be made for 
paving, cranes and miscellaneous equipment. Facilities will be provided for 
handling bulk and miscellaneous cargoes. 

Queens Borough will have all three terminals, as pointed out above, whereas 
to date there have been two terminals established on the waterfront in Brooklyn 
and only one in the Bronx. The action of the State in acquiring these three 
terminals is a practical example of what can be accomplished through organized 
effort by the business men of a community through its Chamber of Commerce. 

When the Chamber was organized in 1911, a Commission appointed by the 
State had just completed its hearings on the proposed location of Barge Canal 
Terminals. As the business men of Queens had not been organized, and there- 
fore did not present a united demand for terminals, no provision was made for 
their establishment in the Borough, although, even at that time, nearly 5 per cent 
of the assessed valuation, population, and manufactured products of the State 
were included in the Borough. 

A Barge Canal Terminal is a freight station on the waterfront, to or from 
which the public can truck freight shipped via canal boats, just the same as they 
do from freight stations on railroads. 

The manufacturers and merchants of Queens will all benefit by the reduction 
in the cost of transporting commodities of every kind, as there is not a section 
of the Borough which will not be within easy trucking distance of at least one of 
these three terminals. 




Vernon Ave. Barge Canal Terminal, Long Island City, Just North of 

QUEENSBORO BrIDGE. 



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39 



BRIDGES 




HE first step in the gradual rounding out of New York City dur- 
ing the past forty years was the spanning of the East River by 
immense aerial highways, eliminating this waterway as a bar- 
rier to the spread of population and commerce eastward into 
Queens and Brooklyn. 
Three huge bridges connecting Manhattan and Brooklyn — the Brooklyn 
Bridge, opened in May 1883 ; the Williamsburg Bridge, opened in December 
1903 ; and the Manhattan Bridge, opened in December 1909 — have been, and are 
today, important factors in the growth of Queens Borough. All three bridges 
serve indirectly, through the Borough of Brooklyn, the residential and business 
interests of Queens. 

As the business center of Manhattan grew northward, and as the population, 
commerce and industry of Queens Borough continued to increase, the necessity 
for a direct connection between Manhattan and Queens became more and more 
necessary. Shortly after Queens became a part of New York City, the efforts 
of its residents to secure the construction of such a bridge were rewarded, for in 
June 1901 a contract was let for the piers and in November 1903 contract was 
let for the steel superstructure of the Queensboro Bridge. On March 30, 1909, 
the bridge was completed and officially opened to the public. 

Immediately following the opening of the Queensboro Bridge, many large 
industrial plants, formerly located in Manhattan, began to seek sites in Queens 
for the erection of new plants. This influx of factories has grown year by year, 
and the number of vehicles and passengers using the bridge daily has continued 
to increase to such an extent that plans are already being made to urge the con- 
struction of still another bridge connecting Queens with Manhattan and the 
Bronx by spanning the East River in the vicinity of Hell Gate. 



QUEENSBORO BRIDGE 

No better proof of the rapid development of Queens Borough and adjacent 
territory on Long Island during the past decade need be given than a statement 
of the amazing growth of the daily traffic of passengers, vehicles and trolley 
cars crossing the Queensboro Bridge since its opening in 1909. 

Each year a traffic count for a period of 24 hours is made by the Department 
of Plant and Structures (formerly Bridge Department) and the results below 
show 900 per cent increase in vehicular traffic and 150 per cent increase in the 
number of persons who daily cross the Bridge during the past 10 years. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



DATE 


PERSONS 


TROLLEY 


CARS 


VEHICLES 


Nov. II, 1910 


44,329 


1,751 




1,810 


Dec. 28, 191 1 


47,694 


2,284 




2,352 


Oct. 24, 1912 


59,529 


2,796 




3,644 


Oct. 29, 1913 


81,760 


2,924 




6,691 


Nov. 5, 1914 


87,850 


3,091 




7,207 


Oct. 28, 191 S 


93,654 


3,212 




9-505 


(a) Dec. 7, 1916 


79,482 


2,967 




9,858 


Oct. 25, 1917 


93,897 


2,113 




13,431 


191S 




No 


Official 


Count Made 


Oct. 21, 1919 


109,691 


1,516 




18,801 



SECOND AVE. "L" 
CARS 



1032 



1,183 



(a) The decrease in number of persons and trolleys in 1916 resulted from 
the operation of the Oueensboro Subway between 42nd Street, Man- 
hattan, and the Bridge Plaza, Long Island City. 




Courtesy E. W. Spofford. 

View showing five bridges spanning the East River. The New York Con- 
necting Railroad Bridge at Hell Gate is shown in foreground. The proposed 
Tri-Borough Bridge would parallel this route a short distance to the south. 

The Queensboro Bridge across Blackwell's Island joining Long Island City 
with Manhattan at 59th Street is also shown. 



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41 



INCREASE IN MOTOR VEHICLES 

(b) Operation of 2nd Ave. "L" trains on upper level inaugurated July 23, 
1917. 
The increase in the number of motor driven vehicles as compared with horse 
drawn is particularly interesting. In 1913, there were 1899 horse drawn (25%) 
and 4792 motor driven (75%) or a total of 6691 vehicles crossing the bridge 
in 24 hours. In 1919 the number of horse drawn had decreased to 1207 (7%) 
and the motor driven had increased to 17,594 (93%) or a total of 18,801. A 
large part of this increase is due to the many new automobile manufacturing 
plants and service stations which have located in Queens Borough during the past 
ten years. The picture below shows very clearly how close together are the 
"Automobile Sales Row" on Broadway, Manhattan, and the many automobile 
service and manufacturing plants in Queens Borough. 



M 



#. 




The three bridges — Williamsburg, Manhattan and Brooklyn — connecting 
lower Manhattan with Brooklyn are seen in the distance. 

In the central foreground may be seen the largest gas plant in the world — 
The Astoria Light, Heat and Power Co. — where all the gas consumed in Man- 
hattan is manufactured. 



42 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 




Photo by Dr. W. T. Kilmer Goerz-Dagor Lens 

The Queensboro Bridge at Night 




The 52-foot wide vehicular roadway of the Queensboro Bridge. 18,000 
vehicles used this roadway on Oct. 21, 1919. On a summer day as many as 30,000 
automobiles use this roadway. It is the great commercial highway connecting the 
industrial sections of Oueens Borough with the mercantile sections of Manhattan. 



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HISTORY 

December 2, 1899— The general plan for a cantilever bridge from Second 
Avenue, between 59th and 60th Streets, Manhattan, across 
Blackwell's Island to intersection with Jane Street, Long 
Island City, was submitted to the Secretary of War. 

November 15, 1900 — Ordinance authorizing construction approved by Mayor 
of New York City. 

February 23, 1901 — Plans were approved by War Department. 

March 21, 1901 — Board of Alderman authorized condemnation proceedings for 
the land required. 

June 27, 1901 — Contract was let for construction of the six masonry piers to 
Ryan & Parker for $745,547; work commenced July 19th. 

November 20, 1903 — Contract let to Pennsylvania Steel Company for construc- 
tion of steel superstructure at $5,132,985. 

December 31, 1903 — Contract let to Williams Engineering & Contracting Com- 
pany for towers on piers for $685,000. 

June 15, 1908 — Contract of Pennsylvania Steel Company for steel superstructure 
completed. 

March 30, 1909 — Bridge opened for pedestrians and vehicles. 

June 12, 1909 — Celebration of completion of bridge commenced. 

September 19, 1909 — Operation of surface cars over bridge began. 

July 18, 1911 — Bridge tolls abohshed by Board of Aldermen. 

July 23, 1917 — Second Avenue "L" operated across upper level from Manhattan. 

FIXED STATISTICS 

Type — Continuous cantilever, without suspended span ; steel towers. 

Grades on Bridge and Approaches — Queens approach, 3.4 per cent; Man- 
hattan approach, roadway, 3.5 per cent; trolleys, 5.8 per cent; main bridge spans, 
3.4 per cent; the middle, 1,700 feet, is level. 

Width of Wafcrzvay — Pier line to pier line, west channel, 939 feet ; east 
channel, 793.2 feet. 

Clear Width of Navigable Openings, square with the channel — Between 2A — 
foot contours, west channel, 860.7 feet; east channel, 216.3 feet. 

Material of Bridge — Medium steel, except top chord eye-bars and pins, 
which are nickel steel. 

Foundation — Two anchor piers to rock ; 4 main piers to rock. 

Facilities — One roadway, 53.25 feet wide; 2'sidewalks, 16.33 feet; 2 surface 
car tracks ; 2 elevated car tracks. 

Can Pass in Either Direction in One Hour (maximum) — Passengers 
(vehicles), 14,400; passengers (cars), 315,200; foot passengers, 24,500; total 
354,100; 172.050 eastbound, 172,050 westbound. 



44 Cpiamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Original Contract Price — Land, $4,635,000; approaches, bridge, $13,496,500. 
Final Cost, Including Land, etc. — $18,131,500. 

Total length of bridge from east side of Second Avenue, Manhattan, to Jack- 
son Avenue, Queens, including Queens Plaza, 8,601 feet. The length of spans 
are: Manhattan anchor spans, 469.5 feet; west channel span, 1,182 feet; island 
span, 459 feet; east channel span, 984 feet; Queens anchor span, 459 feet. The 
clear height over East River is 135 feet. 

PROPOSED TRI-BOROUGH BRIDGE 

A bill has been introduced in the New York State Legislature authorizing the 
City of New York to proceed with the construction of a new bridge over the East 
River connecting Queens Borough with the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. 
Tentative plans, which have already been prepared by the Department of Plant 
and Structures for this new highway, estimate its cost between $15,000,000, and 
$20,000,000. - "' - - ■- "" 

The proposed bridge would have, terminals at Second Avenue and Potter 
Avenue, Queens; .125th .Street and First Avenue, -Manhattan ; and St. Ann's 
Avenue and Southern Boulevard, Bronx. The total length of the bridge would 
be about 15,000 feet and it would parallel the present approaches of the span of 
the New York Connecting Railroad Bridge from Astoria crossing the East River 
at Hell Gate, across Randall's Island and Ward's Island where it would fork, one 
branch (for vehicles and foot traffic) leading to 125th Street, Manhattan,, 
and the other branch (for transit lines, vehicles, and foot traffic) to the Bronx. 

The construction of this bridge would mean that the upper part of Man- 
hattan, as well as the Bronx, would be made more accessible to Queens Borough, 
which naturally means a reduction in the cost of handling products transported 
between these boroughs. 

An important reason given for the construction of this bridge is the oppor- 
tunity which would be afforded for the extension of the present Astoria "L" tO' 
upper Manhattan and the Bronx making the labor supply of these great resi- 
dential centers more available for the many industrial plants in Queens Borough. 

BRIDGES CONNECTING QUEENS WITH BROOKLYN; BRIDGES 
CROSSING INTERIOR WATERWAYS. 

Name. Water Crossing TjTiei of GIea,i- Height Greatest Leiigtliof Ivengtli of Total width 

Vernon Avenue Xewtown Creek 

Greenpoint Avenue... 

Meeker Avenue " 

Grand -Street. " 

Borden Avenue Dutch Kills Creek 

Flushing Flushing Creek 

Strong's Causeway Flushing Creek 

Little Neck Alley Creek 



Bridge Above 


M.H.W. 


Span 


Bridge 


App. 


of Bridge 


Feet 


Feet; 


Fee* 


Fee* 


Paet 


Bascule 


24 


172 


1698.6 


. 1500 


60 


Swing 


15 


206.7 


282 


75 


32 


Swing 


8 


200 


284 


84 


31 


Swing 


10 


229.6 


550 


320 


36 


Retractile 


3-S 


169 


265 


90 


50.5 


Bascule 


12 


68 


351 


262 


52 


Swing 


2 


135 


135-2 


44 


33-2 


Swing 


2 


90 


157-2 


65 


18 



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TRANSPORTATION 

THE NEW YORK CONNECTING RAILROAD 




HE New York Connecting Railroad was completed and placed 
in operation in April 1917 for passenger service. Freight 
service was inaugurated January 17th, 1918. 

The importance of this enormous and costly undertaking 
to the industrial and commercial life of Queens Borough can- 
not be overestimated. It is not only of inestimable value to 
the thousands of manufacturing establishments now located in the Borou^-h, but 
will be the deciding factor in bringing thousands of new industrial plants into 
Queens. 

Connecting as it does, thousands of miles of tracks operated by the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad System with the thousands of miles operated by the New York, 
New Haven & Hartford Railroad System and its connections in the New Eng- 
land States, this new Railroad has placed all of the Borough of Queens on the 
main line of these vast transportation systems and has enabled shippers and 
receivers of freight in every section of the Borough to save both time and money 
in the receipt and delivery of their raw materials and finished products. 

It has given Queens Borough an all rail route with the mainland and has 
done away with the necessity for lightering freight cars across the East River to 
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad terminals. Today long trains of 
freight cars are operating over this new route bringing into Queens, with greater 
dispatch, commodities of every description and taking back to all parts of the 
United States the products of the industrial plants of the Borough. 

The New York Connecting Railroad, incorporated April 1892, was granted 
a Certificate on February 14th, 1907 by the Board of Rapid Transit Railroad 
Commissioners of the City of New York, authorizing it to construct and operate 
a railroad from a point in the Borough of Brooklyn, through the Borough of 
Queens, and across the East River, Ward's Island, Little Hell Gate, Randall's 
Island and Bronx Hills to a point in the Borough of the Bronx, a distance of 
approximately 12 miles. The certificate and franchise were approved by the 
Board of Estimate and Apportionment on February 15th, 1907 and by the Mayor 
on March 14th of the same year. 



46 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

The bridge itself, which is the largest of its kind in the world, cost 
$18,000,000. The total cost including the approaches and construction work to 
Bay Ridge was $30,000,000. The total length of the bridge including the 
viaducts is more than three miles. The main span across the East River at Hell 
Gate connects the Astoria section of Queens with Ward's Island, and Ward's 
Island is in turn connected with Randall's Island, which is connected with the 
Bronx. 

The massive granite piers of the bridge rise to a height of 240 feet and are 
1,000 feet apart. The big steel arches which support the deck of the bridge are 
3,000 feet in length, rising to a height of 300 feet above the water. The deck is 
150 feet above the river and the clearance for vessels at mean high water is 140 
feet, permitting the tallest masts of the largest vessels afloat today to pass safely 
beneath it. 

The Railroad is used not only for freight service but two of the four tracks 
are used for passenger traffic. Through passenger trains operate from Boston 
to Washington and other cities. The structure after leaving the bridge across 
the East River gradually descends in Queens to a level near the surface at Wood- 
side where one branch, for passenger trains, extends to the Sunnyside Yards of 
the Long Island Railroad and is carried into the tunnels under the East River to 
the Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan. Another branch, for freight trains, 
continues through the Newtown section, where the route is gradually depressed 
and becomes partly tunnel construction, until Lutheran Cemetery is reached. 
Here it enters a tunnel more than a half mile in length and is carried over the 
tracks of the Long Island Railroad to the Evergreen section where it again passes 
through tunnels under the East New York section of Brooklyn, and thence 
through a "cut" to the Bay Ridge section on the waterfront of South Brooklyn. 
From this point freight cars are lightered across the Upper Bay to the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad yards at Greenville, N. J. 

Efforts are now being made by the Queens Chamber of Commerce to have 
freight tunnels constructed under the Narrows connecting South Brooklyn and 
Staten Island to provide for an all rail route to connect with all the trunk lines 
which terminate on the Jersey side of the harbor. 

The interchange point of the New York Connecting Railroad for the 
delivery of freight to Long Island Railroad is at Fresh Pond Junction, situated 
on the Montauk Division, about half way between Long Island City and Jamaica. 



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47 




TROLLEY LINES 

P to the years 1915-6-7, when the new rapid extensions into 
Queens were placed in operation, the development of the Bor- 
ough was entirely dependent upon the Long Island Railroad 
and the trolley lines. 

With 200 miles of trolley tracks radiating to all parts of 
the Borough, connecting many widely separated communities. 
Queens began to grow to its present importance. 

The most important addition to the trolley facilities of the Borough during 
the past ten years was the completion of the line which operates from Second 
Avenue, Manhattan, across the Queensboro Bridge and over Queens Boulevard, 
to Jamaica, a distance of 10 miles. The line was placed in operation to Win- 
field in January 1913, to the Long Island Railroad Station, in Jamaica, in 
January 1914, and to South Jamaica in April 1916. 

The efifective cooperation of the Queens Chamber of Commerce secured the 
retention of the franchise for this road when in 1912 proceedings had been started 
to rescind the franchise for failure on the part of the South Shore Traction Com- 
pany (to whom it was originally granted) to construct the line. 

Modern, side-door passenger cars, which make this trip in about half an 
hour, have made accessible for greater home development, thousands of acres of 
land through the center of the Borough which formerly had no transportation 
facilities except one or two stations on the Main Line of the Long Island Rail- 
road. 

Another important improvement to the trolley facilities of the Borough 
was the operation of the cars of the Brooklyn, Queens County and Suburban 
Railway over the extension of this line from Dry Harbor Road (Middle 
Village) to Fulton St. (Jamaica), a distance of approximately three miles, 
which began September 25th, 1917. This extension furnishes a shorter and 
more direct route between Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Kew Gardens and Forest 
Hill to the Williamsburg bridge and City Hall, Manhattan. 

NUMBER OF FARE PASSENGERS 



Year 


New York 










Man. & 




Ending 


& Queens 


N. Y. & L. I. 


L. I. Electric 


N. Y. & N 


0. Ocean 


Queens 




June 


County 


Traction 


Railway 


Shore Trac 


- Electric 


Traction 




30th 


Railway 


Co. 




tion Co. 


Co. 


Co. 


Total 


1910 


20,277,761 


7,080,303 


3,519,080 




2,103,868 


1,449,062 


34,430,074 


1911 


23,640,701 


7,758,657 


3,837,468 


2,084,758 


2,230,951 


2,969,950 


42,522,485 


1912 


25,450,728 


7,834,539 


3,826,087 


2,755,140 


2,647,904 


2,668,334 


45,182,732 


1913 


2,6950,656 


8,040,320 


4,084,666 


2,761,466 


2,876,607 


2,753,299 


47,467,014 


1914 


26,744,147 


8,088,288 


4,367,692 


2,878,546 


2,171,551 


4,728,472 


49,973,696 


1915 


26,835,060 


8,549,769 


4,404,800 


2,940,272 


3,100,473 


6,855,734 


52,686,108 


1916 


28,373,608 


8,294,525 


4,418,933 


2,901,530 


3,008,609 


7,170,198 


54,167,403 


1917* 


21,481,773 


8,574-4^9 


4,464,017 


2,787,813 


3,149,360 


8,093,565 


48,551,017 


1918* 


18,895,235 


8,988,026 


3,972,356 


3.972,194 


3,109,695 


5,940,482 


43,544,988 


1919* 


20,490,616 


9.916,443 


4,166,612 


2,716,602 


3,439,412 


5,993,890 


46,723,575 



'Decrease resulted from operation of rapid transit trains. 



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Chaimber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



Name of Railway 


Lilies Operated 


Miles 
of 
Track 


Incor- 
por- 
ated 

1896 


Remarks 




From 


To 




New York & 
Queens County- 
Railway 


New York 
via Queens- 
boro Bridge 
& Long Isl- 
and City 

Flushing 


L. I. City 

Dutch Kills 

Steinway 

Astoria 

Ravenswood 

Calvary 

Elmhurst 

Corona & 
Flushing- 
College Point 
& Jamaica 

Ozone Park, 
Laurelton, 
Woodhaven & 
Jamaica. 
Hollis &Queens 


74.58 


Owned bv the Interboro 
R. T. Co. 


*New York & 
Long Island 
Traction Co. 


City Line, 
Brooklyn 

Jamaica 
Jamaica 


41.80 


1894 


Owned jointly by the L. 
I. R. R. & the Interboro 
R. T. Co. 


*Long Island 
Electric Railway 
Co. 


Hollis, Queens 
& Hempstead 


25-85 


1899 


Owned jointly by the L. 
I. R. R. & the Interboro 
R. T. Co. 


*New York & 
North Shore 
Traction Co. 


Flushing 


Whitestone, 
Bayside, Great 
Neck, Roslyn, 
& Port Wash- 
ington 


37-72 


1902 


Operation started July 
1910 


Ocean Electric 
Railway Company 


Far Rock- 
away 


Hammels, Belle 
Harbor, Rock- 
away Beach 


15-59 


1897 


Owned by the L. I. R. R. 


Manhattan & 
Queens Traction 
Corporation 


New York 
via Queens- 
boro Bridge 
Long Island 


L. I. City, Elm- 
hurst, Forest 
Hills, Kew Gar- 
dens, Jamaica 


19.48 


1903 


Local service started 
1909; Line to Jamaica 
1914 


tBrooklyn, 
Queens Co. & Sub- 
urban R. R. 


Bk. (^letro- 
p'lit'n Ave.) 
Brooklyn 
(Cvpress 
Hills) 


Jamaica 
Woodhaven, 
Richmond Hill, 
Jamaica 


27.00 


1893 


Owned by the Brooktyn 
R. T. Co. 


tBrooklyn 
Heights Railroad 
Co. 


Bk. (Rgwd) 

Bk. (Rgwd) 

Mhtn. (De- 
lancey St.) 


Richmond Hill 
(Myrtle Ave.) 
Flushing 
North Beach 


55-00 


1887 


Owned by the B. R. T. 
Co. 



*Operated in both Queens Borough and Nassau County. 
tOperated in both Queens Borough and Brooklvn. 



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PENNSYLVANIA STATION 

HE niagnificient Pennsylvania Station, situated in the heart of 
the midtown business section of Manhattan and located on the 
Seventh Avenue Subw^ay, is within a few minutes walk of 
the theatrical and shopping districts. It is one of the prin- 
cipal gateways to the Borough of Queens. 

Any publication setting forth the advantages of the Queens 
Borough section of New York City, would be incomplete with- 
out a statement as to the facilities which are provided by this gigantic terminal 
for the residential and business interests of the fastest growing borough of New 
York City. 

The Station is built after the Roman Doric Style of architecture and covers 
the entire area bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 3ord 
Streets, covering more territory than any other building in the world, constructed 
at one time. It is larger than the Union Station at St. Louis, and more spacious 
than the new station at Washington. It covers eight acres of ground, and took 
six years to complete. It has a capacity of 144 trains per hour, has eleven station 
platforms with a total length of nearly four miles. 




BiRDSEYE View of Pennsylvania Station 



50 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Ten years ago — September 12th, 1910 — this station was opened for oper- 
ation of the trains of the Long Island Raih'oad giving electric train service 
to all parts of Queens Borough. Passengers can go from this station in modern 
comfortable steel coaches, electrically operated, to the furthermost points in 
Queens Borough in half an hour. 

Four minutes after starting, passing through tunnels under Manhattan Island 
and the East River, trains emerge into the Sunn3^side Yards in Long Island City. 
Nine minutes after starting the first stop is made at Woodside, 5 miles distant 
from the Pennsylvania Station. 

The amazing growth in the number of Long Island Railroad passengers, to 
and from Queens Borough and all sections of Long Island, has necessitated the 
enlargement and remodeling, three different times within the past nine years of 
that part of the Station along 33rd Street, devoted to the use of the Long Island 
Railroad. 

More than 100,000,000 passengers have entered and departed on the Long 
Island Railroad alone in the past nine years. It is estimated that 75% of these 
passengers travel to and from stations located in Queens Borough. 

The following statement gives a good idea of the remarkable growth in the 
use of this station by both the Long Island Railroad and the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road. 

Passengers For Year 1911 

Arriving & Departing Number / 
Long Island Railroad 6,224,429 
Pennsylvania Railroad 3,638,005 

Total 9,862,434 

Lehigh Valley Railroad 
Baltimore & Ohio " 
*Estimated 

The total number of Pennsylvania Railroad passengers arriving and leaving 
New York City during 1919 was 40,800.000 which was made up as follows: — 
10,200,000 — to and from Pennsylvania Station. 

22,440,000 — to and from Newark, Harrison and Manhattan Transfer. 
4,420,000 — to and from steam trains at Jersey City. 
2,040,000— Cortlandt Street Ferry. 
1,700,000 — Desbrosses Street Ferry. 
The remarkable transportation facilities which this Station places at the dis- 
posal of the residents of Queens Borough are unique, for no other borough of 
New York City possesses similar advantages. This wonderful transportation 
service from Manhattan to Queens, combined with the Rapid Transit service of 
the new subway and elevated extensions from Manhattan and Brooklyn to all 
sections of Queens, has resulted in a building development of homes and fac- 
tories that was equaled by only three cities in the United State in 1919. 





For Year 1919 




Percent 


rccnt 


Number P 


ercent 


Increase 


64 


19,843,205 


66 


220 


Z6 


10,200,000* 


34 


180 


[00 


30,043,205 


100 


200 




408,000 








510,000 







New York City 



51 



THE LONG ISLAND RAILROAD 




HE silent, swift and smokeless rapid transit service rendered by 
the Long Island Railroad to the residents of every section of 
Queens Borough is distinctive. With the advantages of both 
steam and electric trains, under river tunnels, and nearly 200 
miles of single track in Queens Borough and with modern all- 
steel car equipment, the transportation facilities offered by this 
railroad are ahead of those provided for any other section 
adjacent to Manhattan. No other borough of New York City has the advantage 

of similar service. 

Trains of big, comfortable steel cars, electrically operated, from the terminals 
in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Long Island City, carry more than 150,000 passengers 
daily to and from their homes and places of business. 

The growth during the past ten years in the number of commuters who use 
this road to reach their homes in the attractive residential sections of Queens has 
exceeded even the most optimistic expectations of those who planned the costly 
improvements which have made these facilities so valuable to the present and 
future residential, industrial and commercial interests of Oueens Borough. 




Passenger Station and Office Building, Jamaica. 



52 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

The number of passengers on the Long Island Raih-oad, who enter and leave 
the Flatbush Avenue Station in Brooklyn, is almost as great as the total number 
of both New York Central and New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad pas- 
sengers using the Grand Central Station. 

The number of Long Island Railroad passengers who enter and leave the 
Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan has grown from 6.224,429 in 1911 to 19,843,205 
in 1919, an increase of 220% in less than 10 years. 

Although there are more railroad lines operating to New Jersey towns within 
the Metropolitan area, they are steam roads without direct terminals in Manhat- 
tan or Brooklyn. Their service to commuters cannot be compared with that 
rendered by the Long Island Railroad to the residents of Queens. 

The fact that an express station on the original subway in New York was 
located at Grand Central Station gave the New York Central and New Haven 
Railroads a decided advantage from 1904, when the subway was placed in oper- 
ation, to 1918 when the Seventh Avenue Subway was opened with an express 
stop at Pennsylvania Station. Commuters who formerly lived in Westchester 
County and Connecticut now find it more convenient to use the Pennsylvania 
Station to reach homes in Queens Borough. The tide of travel has turned east- 
ward. 

Since 1901, when the Pennsylvania Railroad acquired control of the Long 
Island Railroad, the entire system has been practically rebuilt, with an expendi- 
ture of over $60,000,000 for eliminating grade crossings, providing additional 
tracks, rolling stock and stations. All of this work has been done in conjunction 
with the vast improvements of the Pennsylvania system in and around New 
York City, estimated to have cost over one hundred million dollars. 

HISTORY 

The Long Island Railroad Company — one of the first steam railroads of the 
United States — was incorporated in April 1834, to build a line from the village 
of Greenport, L. I. to the water edge in the village of Brooklyn, to connect with 
steamboats at Greenport to make a through line from New York to Boston. The 
first line built was from Brooklyn to Jamaica in 1834; Long Island City to 
Jamaica in I860: Long Island City and New York and Flushing Junction 1854; 
Whitestone and Whitestone Junction 1868; Rockaway Junction and Far Rock- 
away 1873 ; Great Neck and Port Washington 1898. 

ELECTRIFICATION 

Electrical work on the lines of the Long Island Railroad commenced in 1904 
and electric service was started from Brooklyn to Rockaway Park across the 
Jamaica Bay trestle, July 28. 1905 ; from Brooklyn to Jamaica, August 30, 1905 ; 
to Belmont Park, October 2, 1905 ; Springfield Junction. October 16, 1905 ; and 



New York City 



53 




Map Showing Location of Passenger Stations in Queens Borough 
ON the Long Island Railroad. 



Valley Stream via Hammel and Far Rockaway, December 11, 1905. On May 
17, 1906 electric service was extended from Springfield Junction to Valley Stream 
completing a loop around the eastern section of Jamaica Bay ; on May 26, 1908 
the service was extended to Hempstead and Garden City. 

On September 10, 1910, electrical operation was inaugurated from Pennsyl- 
vania Station, Manhattan, to Jamaica and Long Beach ; also, via Glendale cut-ofiF, 



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to Rockaway Beach. On October 22, 1912, electric service was started from 
Pennsylvania Station, via Flushing, Bridge Street, to College Point and White- 
stone; and on Octboer 21, 1913 to Flushing. Bayside, and other stations, to Port 
Washington. 

Today the Long Island Railroad operates 400 miles of line of which more 
than 70 miles are in Queens Borough — some two and others four and six tracks. 
Eighty-five percent of the road in Queens in electrified. 

TUNNELS 

The construction of the four steel tunnels from the Pennsylvania Station 
-Lmder the Island of Manhattan and the East River, connecting not only the Bor- 
■ough of Queens, but all of Long Island, with the heart of New York, was one 
of the greatest railroad projects ever undertaken. Great engineering difficulties 
were encountered on account of the number of tubes and the rapidly moving 
•express and local trains they were built to stand. The length of each tunnel 
from Pennsylvania Station to the First Avenue shaft is 5,199 feet; First Avenue 
shaft to Long Island City shaft, 3,955 feet ; Long Island City shaft to portal 3,950 
feet. 

SUNNYSIDE YARD 




SuNNYSiDE Yard, Long Island City. 
Pierce-Arrow Service Station in Background. 

The Sunnyside Yard is a part of the huge terminal system of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad and the Long Island Railroad and is said to be the largest and 
most scientifically arranged passenger car yard in the world. It has an area of 
190 acres used for that purpose of car storage and for overhauling and cleaning day 
coaches and Pullman cars ; also for making up trains preparatory to their trip 
to the Pennsylvania Station in Manhattan, from which they run to all parts of 
the trunk system of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The yard is 5,500 feet in 
length and 1,550 feet in width. There are at present 73 miles of track in the 
yard arranged in a system of loops that have a capacity for the storage of 2,000 
cars. In the construction of the yard over 2,300,000 cubic yards of dirt were 
moved. The yard is traversed by eight stately steel bridges and viaducts, some 
of which cost over $500,000, providing for carrying the highways of Queens 



New York City 55 




Flatbush Ave. Station, Brooklyn. 

across the net work of tracks. Nearby is the power house that supplies the 
power for the entire electrical operation of the Long Island Railroad and con- 
tains 32 boilers, set in batteries of two boilers each, with a capacity of 37,500 
Horse Power, or 50,000 Kilowatts of electrical power. The building has a 
capacity of double the present amount of machinery, or 100,000 Kilowatts. 

IMPROVEMENTS 

NORTH SHORE DIVISION 

The completion of the electrification of the North Shore Division from Win- 
field to Port Washington, estimated to have cost $1,500,000., which included the 
elimination of grade crossings through Flushing, and the inauguration of through 
electric service on this line, has resulted in a great saving of time to all residents 
on this branch, and has done away with the former inconvenience of changing 
cars at Woodside. 
WOODSIDE-WINFIELD CUT-OFF . l 

The completion in 1916 of this important improvement eliminated ten grade 
crossings, straightened the main line doing away with a double curve, and af- 
fected a considerable saving in time for all trains to and from both the Pennsyl- 
vania Station and the Long Island City terminal. The improvement included 
a massive six-track steel bridge more than 200 feet in length over Queens Boule- 
vard. The joint rapid transit transfer station on the Corona Elevated extension 
is on this straightened line. The increase in the number of tickets sold at this 
rapid transit station from May 1917, when it was placed in operation, to Septem- 
ber 1919 tells its own story as to the convenience of this joint station for the 
interchange of passengers. The number of tickets sold in May 1917 was 42,100; 
the number in September 1919 was 71,900. 



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Station at Broadway, Flushing. 

JAMAICA IMPROVEMENT l 

The biggest railroad improvement in the Borough during the past ten years 
was the completion of the new Jamaica transfer station and yard, costing over 
$3,000,000. This station was opened to the public in March, 1913. As a result 
of the improvement many dangerous highway crossings at grade were eliminated 
and passengers from all parts of Long Island are now afforded easy and quick 
transfer between trains, doing away with former delays. The station includes 
12 passenger tracks and five wide platforms. The improvement also included 
the construction of a six-story, concrete-steel station and office building. The 
main station is now at Sutphin Avenue, 1,500 feet west of the old station. 

The improvement has given a great stimulus to the development of Jamaica 
and other sections in the central and southern part of the Borough. The great 
increase in the yard capacity permits an increase in the number of trains without 
resulting in congestion and consequent delay and danger. The extent of the 
benefit of the improvement can be appreciated by the fact that over 100,000 
passengers pass through this station on an average for every day of the year. 

GRADE CROSSINGS 

In addition to the elimination of grade crossings as a result of the improve- 
ments at Woodside, Flushing and Jamaica, important work has also been done 
at Fresh Pond Road and Metropolitan Avenue, at Bushwick Junction, Hollis, 
and in Far Rockaway. The elimination of grade crossings in Richmond Hill on 
the Montauk Division, and along the Atlantic Division through Woodhaven and 
Morris Park will be undertaken shortly. 

There are today approximately 169 grade crossings on the Long Island Rail- 
road in Oueens Borousfh. 



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57 



WOODSIDE TRANSFER STATION 

Through this joint station, passengers on any division of the Long Island 
Railroad, whether North Shore, Main Line, or Rockaway Division, are able to 
transfer directly to the Oueensboro Subway and Second Avenue "L" rapid tian- 
sit trains of the Literborough and the Broadway-59th Street Line of the B. R. T. 

The importance of this station as a transfer point is directly proportional to 
the number of Long Island Railroad trains which stop there. About seventy-four 
percent of the trains stop today. The Oueensboro Chamber of Commerce be- 
lieves that more trains should stop at that point for the interchange of passengers, 
at the same time realizing that passengers bound for all points in New York City 
can go through to the Pennsylvania Station and make connections there with the 
Seventh Avenue Subway. 




Map Showing Relation of the Woodside Stations of the Long Island 

Railroad and the Rapid Transit Systems as a Convenient Transfer 

Point. Insert Photograph Shows tfie Two Stations, 

One Above the Other. 



58 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

PASSENGER TRAFFIC 

Lying -within a radius of 15 to 20 miles from the business sections of Man- 
hattan and Brooklyn is the great suburban zone of the Borough of Queens. This 
is one of the most wonderful residential sections in the world. The following 
table will give the reader an adequate idea of the immense growth in travel in 
the past ten years to and from Brooklyn and New York to Queens Borough and 
Long Island. 



Year 


No. oi 


■ Passengers Car: 


ried 


Increase 


No. 


of Commuters 
(Tickets) 


1910 




30,978,615 




3,511,854 




142,427 


1911 




33,867,228 




2,888,613 




162,318 


1912 




37,319,812 




3,452,584 




182,025 


1913 




40,606,183 




3,286,317 




203,886 


1914 




42,127,526 




1,521,343 




216,728 


1915 




42,629,325 




501,799 




226,391 


1916 




45,802,555 




3,213,230 




254,803 


1917 




50,796,028 




4,993,473 




275,712 


1918 




55,004,086 




4,208,058 




294,045 


1919 




64,067,541 




9,063,455 




367,057 


The 


following table gives the 


number of 


passengers entering 


and leaving 


the three 


principals 


terminals for the past ten 


years : — 






Year 


L. I. Citv 


Brooklyn 


Penna 


. Sta. 


Local 


Total 


1910 


6,332,878 


13,455,991 


1,422, 


.999 


9,766,837 


30,978,615 


*I9II 


*3,3o8,938 


14,094,003 


6,224,429 


10,239,853 


33,867,228 


1912 


3,071,004 


15,772,402 


7,732: 


,184 


10,744,222 


37,319,812 


1913 


2,318,568 


17,501,524 


9,629, 


,021 


11,157,070 


40,606,183 


1914 


1,471,541 


18,064,729 


11,031, 


,845 


11,559,411 


42,127,526 


1915 


1,242,061 


18,135,150 


11,807, 


>5i2 


11,444,662 


42,629,325 


1916 


1,167,087 


19,666,344 


13,225,091 


11,745,033 


45,802,555 


1917 


1,210,578 


23,118,805 


14,459,259 


12,007,386 


50,796,028 


1918 


1,676,045 


23,824,123 


15,595: 


,142 


13,908,776 


55,004,086 


1919 


1,399,352 


27,543,674 


19,843 


,205 


15,231,310 


64,067,541 



(^The opening of the Pennsylvania Station in September diverted the trains, 
and therefore the passengers, from the former terminal in Long Island City.) 

To carry the above passengers in and out of the terminals The Long Lsland 
Railroad operated, during 1919, 88,140 trains in and out of the Pennsylvania 
Station and 103,390 trains in and out of Flatbush Avenue. 

FREIGHT 

The Long Island Railroad Co. serves all parts of Queens Borough and is a 
Terminal Line for all of the Trunk Lines entering New York City. Except in 
and from nearby points, New York rates, (with few exception) apply to and 
from nearly all points in the Metropolitan District on Long Island, which includes 
the following stations in Queens Borough : 

BHssville Elmhurst Jamaica Richmond Hill 

College Point Flushing Laurel Hill Whitestone 

Corona Forest Hills Long Island City Winfield 

Glendale Ozone Park 



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To and from points beyond Flushing and College Point on the North Shore; 
Jamaica on the Main Line, and Ozone Park on the Rockaway Beach Division ; 
the through rates are slightly higher than the rates to and from the above points. 

The New York Connecting R. R., with its bridge over Hell Gate, provides 
an all-rail servcie on traffic to and from New England routed via the N. Y., N. H. 
& H. R. R. The rates via this route to and from all points in Queens Borough 
(except Fresh Pond Junction — the interchange point) are slightly higher at the 
present time than the rates to and from Manhattan. 

FREIGHT CARRIED BY THE LONG ISLAND R. R. l 

No. tons Increase 

Year carried Decrease ( — ) Revenue 

1910 3,814,209 218,352 $3,100,064 

191 1 3,996,717 182,508 3,258,402 

1912 4,268,313 271,596 3,435,643 

1913 4,147,072 121,241 3,327,768 

1914 4,480,231 333,151 3,739,567 

1915 4,443,333 —36,898 3,865,745 

1916 5,134,838 691,505 • 4,397,210 

1917 " 5,271,509 136,671 4,623,578 

1918 5,798,876 527,367 5,713,724 

1919 5,912,833 113,957 6,280,426 

FACILITIES FOR RECEIPT AND DELIVERY OF FREIGHT 

The facilities of the Long Island Railroad for handling freight in the Bor- 
ough of Queens are as follows : 

Auburndale, Carloads only. Team track capacity 12 cars. 

Bayside, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 16 cars. 

Blissville, Carloads only. Greenpoint Avenue & Newtown Creek. Team 

track capacity 20 cars. 

Blissville Docks, Located on Newtown Creek, between Vernon & Greenpoint 
Avenues. Ample facilities are provided for handling freight 
between boats and cars when destined to or shipped from 
points on the Long Island Railroad. 

Broad Channel, Less than carloads only ; handled under special restrictions. 
Under jurisdiction of Hammel Agency. Charges on in- 
bound freight must be prepaid. 

College Point, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 14 cars. 

Corona, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 19 cars. 

Douglaston, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 27 cars. 

Elmhurst, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 11 cars. 

Evergreen (Bklyn) Carloads only. Team track capacity 23 cars. 

Far Rockaway, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 52 cars. 

Flushing, Carloads and less. Myrtle Avenue near Farrington Street. 

Team track capacity 24 cars. 

Forest Hills, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 22 cars. 

Fresh Pond, Carloads and less. Team track capacity 33 cars. 

Glendale, Carloads and less. Private siding. Shippers must arrange 

with owners for use of same. 



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Goose Creek, 



H„,,,„,„l ( Ro oka way 

Hollis 
Howard Beach, 



Jamaica 

Little Neck, 
Lon? Island City 



Ozone Park, 

Queens, 
Richmond Hill, 

Rockaway Park, 

Rosedale, 
St. Albans, 
Springfield, 
The Raunt, 



Whitestone, 
Winfield, 



Less than carloads only ; handled under special restrictions. 
Under jurisdiction of Hammel Agency. Charges on in- 
bound freight must be prepaid. 
) Carloads and less. Team track capacity LS cars. 

Carloads only. Team track capacity 16 cars. 

Carloads and less. Under jurisdiction of Ozone Park 
Agency. Charges on inbound freight must be prepaid. 
Team track capacity 11 cars. 

Carloads and less. Johnson & Van Wyck Avenues. Team 
track capacity 50 cars. Wagon scales. 

Carloads and less. Team track capacity 12 cars. 

Carloads and less ; Jackson Avenue and Eighth St. ; entrance 
Arch St. and at Crane St. Team track capacity 60 cars. 
Wagon scales. 

Carloads only ; Harold Avenue, Jackson Ave. and Madden St. 
Team track capacity 151 cars. Electric crane, capacity 20 
tons. Office Jackson Avenue and Eighth Street. 

Carloads and less. Freeland and Ocean Avenues. Team 
track capacity 40 cars. 

Carloads and less. Team track capacity 25 cars. 

Carloads and less. Jamaica and Lefferts Avenues. Team 
track capacity 44 cars. 

Carloads only. Under jurisdiction of Hammel Agency. Team 
track capacity 15 cars. 

Carloads and less. Team track capacity 9 cars. 

Carloads only. Team track capacity 12 cars. 

Carloads and less. Team track capacity 13 cars. 

Less than carloads only; handled under special restrictions. 
Under jurisdiction of Hammel Agency. Charges on in- 
bound freight must be prepaid. 

Carloads and less. Team track capacity 17 cars. 

Carloads and less. Team track capacity 21 cars. 

MONTAUK POINT HARBOR 



The announcement of the U. S. Shipping Board in July 1919 that plans were 
being prepared for the construction of two gigantic ocean liners, 1,000 feet in 
length, and the development of port and terminal facilities at Fort Pond Bay 
at the eastern end of Long Island, thus reducing the trip between Plymouth, 
England, and the United States approximately 120 miles, is of more than ordinary 
significance to Queens Borough as well as the rest of Long Island. 

This announcement has revived the plans contemplated several years ago 
by the Pennsylvania and Long Island Railroads to develop Montauk Point as a 
port of entry for large ocean-going steamers. 

The interest of Queens Borough in this plan lies in the fact that it would, 
if put into effect, add very materially to the importance of the Borough as a 
freight shipping center. The Long Island Railroad would then become a trunk 
line of national importance with busy terminals at both ends instead of at just 
one end as at present. Naturally Long Island City as one terminal, would enjoy 
additional industrial advantages for as a railroad grows in importance so do its 
terminals. 



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STEWART RAILROAD 



61 



It seems incredible in these days of electric railroads, elevated and subway 
lines, that there should be a district half the size of Manhattan Island, entirely 
within the boundaries of New York City, and only eight to fifteen miles from 
Herald Square, without transit facilities of any sort whatsoever. Most of this 
territory, which is in the Third Ward of Queens, lies between Flushing and 
Bayside on the north, and Jamaica and Creedmore on the south, and is within 
sight of the Metropolitan Tower. Here the old fashioned farmer raises corn and 
potatoes as of fifty years ago. It is a beautiful rolling country, an elevated 
plateau, and admirably adapted for thousands of homes for those who work in 
the business sections of the metropolis, a half hour's travel distant. 

On September 27, 1915, the Long Island Railroad applied to the Public 
Service Commission for permission to construct and operate a double track 
branch road from a point west of Lawrence Street, Flushing, on the North Shore 
Division, southeasterly through this undeveloped farm territory to a point at 
Floral Park where it would connect with the Main Line. 

On January 27, 1916. the Public Service Commission granted the Long Island 
Railroad its approval for the construction of this branch road under its franchise 
rights, of 1839, received from the Legislature of New York State. The approval 
was conditional however, upon the railroad company obtaining from the city of 
New York the right to cross existing streets. 

The city authorities maintained that a new franchise by the Board of Esti- 
mate and Apportionment was necessary. The railroad wished to proceed under 
its old Charter rights. Failure to adjust this question halted the program at 
that time, and while the railroad was under Federal control, no further 
action could be taken. It is believed that this plan wall soon be revived and a 
more successful outcome will result. 

The "Central Railroad of Long Island." commonly known as the "Stewart 
Railroad" was built in 1871 by A. T. Stew^art and placed in operation in 1873 and 
abandoned in 1879, remaining idle ever since. 




Showing Route of "Stewart Railroad" from Flushing to Floral Park. 



62 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



WHOLESALE MARKET 




One of the Proposed Market Buildings. 



Elaborate plans were prepared several years ago by the Long Island Railroad 
for the establishment of a large wholesale and retail market on the property 
owned by it on the west side of Dutch Kills Creek between Hunterspoint Avenue 
and Borden Avenue. The tract comprises 10 acres of land and would have both 
railroad and water shipping facilities. The plan contemplated involved the ex- 
penditure of $5,000,000. for the construction of several massive structures, 
including a cold storage warehouse, fish market, vegetable and fruit market and 
meat market. The location is considered ideal by wholesale commission men for 
it is much nearer the truck farms of Long Island than Wallabout Market in 
Brooklyn or Harlem Market in Manhattan, thus requiring a shorter haul by 
wagon. It would be a big central distributing depot from which retailers of all 
the boroughs of New York could be supplied. Motor trucks can start from this 
point and reach any point in the city within a half hour. 

The Long Island Railroad, it is understood, is willing to cooperate in a plan 
for financing the erection of these market buildings. 



(a). 



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STATIONS-BOROUGH OF QUEENS 

The following tables give the names of every station on the Long Island 
Railroad in the Borough of Queens, of which there are more than sixty, and also 
the distances of same and the time of travel from either the Pennsylvania Station 
in Manhattan or the Flatbush Avenue Station in Brooklyn : — 

ATLANTIC AVENUE DIVISION TO BROOKLYN Time (Minutes) 

Station Distance Local Express 

Union Course 6.3 18 — 

Woodhaven 6.7 16 — 

Woodhaven Junction 7.2 20 16 

Clarenceville 7.8 22 — 

Morris Park 8.2 24 19 

Dunton 8.7 26 — 

Jamaica 9.3 28 19 

Jamaica (Union Hall Street) 9.9 31 25 

Hillside 10.6 34 29 

Hollis ,11.5 36 31 

Bellaire 12.8 38 33 

Queens 13.2 40 35 

MAIN LINE TO PENNA. STATION, MANHATTAN Time {Minutes) 

Station Distance Local Express 

Woodside 5.0 10 10 

Grand Street 6.3 13 ■ — 

Forest Hills 8.7 15 , . 14 , 

Kew Gardens 9.7 17 15 
Westbridge 10.4 

Jamaica (Main Street) 11. 3 24 18 

Jamaica (Union Hall Street) 11.9 25 23 

Hillside 12.7 30 25 

Hollis 13.6 '32 28 

Queens 15.2 35 31 

MONT AUK DIVISION TO LONG ISLAND CITY Time {Minutes) 

Station Distance ■ Local Express 

Fresh Pond 3.9 16 12 

Glendale , 5.2 . 20 — 

Richmond Hili 7.6 24 19 

Jamaica 9.1 30 24 

NO. SHORE DIVISION TO PENNA. STATION, NEW YORK. Time {Minutes) 

Station Distance Local Express 

Winfield 5.9 - 12 il 

Elmhurst 6.6 14 12 

^Corona 7.4 17 13 

Flushing (Bridge Street) 9.6 2T 19 

College Point ii.o 24 21 

Malba 12.0 26 25 

^Whitestone 12.7 28 



-/ 

Whitestone Landing (Beechhurst) 13.3 30 29 

Flushing (Main Street) 9.5 22 16 

[ Murray Hill 10.3 ' 24 18 

Broadway ii.o 27 21 

(b) "1 Auburndale 11.7 29 24 

Bayside 12.6 32 20 

Douglaston 13.9 35 23 

.Little Neck 14.5 37 25 

(a) Whitestone Division. 
(6) Port Washington Division. 



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FAR ROCK AW AY & ROCKAIVA} 


' BEACH DIVISIONS 




Time 


(Minutes) 






D is fail 


ce 


New Yor 


■k 


Br 00 


<klyn 




New York 


Brooklyn 


Local 


Exp. 


Local 


Exp. 


Brooklyn Manor 




lO.I 


— 


19 


19 


— 


— 


Woodhaven Junction 


10.5 


7-2 


21 


21 


IS 


14 


Ozone Park 




10.8 


7-5 


23 


23 


18 


IS 


Aqueduct 




12.1 


8.8 


26 


— 


20 


— 


Howard Beach 




12.6 


9-3 


28 


28 


22 


— 


Hamilton Beach 




13.2 


10. 1 


30 


30 


24 


— 


Goose Creek 




14.6 


II-3 


36 


— 


26 


— 


The Raunt 




15-5 


12.2 


38 


— 


28 


— 


Broad Channel 




16.3 


I3-I 


40 


31 


30 


28 


Hammel 




17.6 


14-3 


42 


2,3 


33 


30 


Holland 




17.9 


14-7 


44 


36 


3S 


32 


Steeplechase 




18.3 


15.0 


47 


39 


38 


34 


Seaside 




184 


15-^ 


47 


39 


38 


34 


Rockaway Park 




19.2 


15-9 


SO 


42 


41 


37 


*Arverne 




18.6 


15-3 


— 


27 


— 


26 


*Egdemere 




19.7 


16.4 


— 


31 


— 


30 


*Far Rockaway 




20.8 


17-5 


— 


34 


— 


33 


*Via Jamaica Bay 


Rout 


e 












MONT A UK DIVISION 










Time 


{Minutes) 






Disfan 


ce 


Nezv Yo, 


rk 


Brooklyn 




New York 


Brooklyn 


Local 


Exp. 


Local 


Exp. 


Cedar Manor 




12.8 


10.8 


30 


23 


28 


27 


Locust Avenue 




13.6 


11.6 


32 


25 


30 


29 


Higbie Avenue 




14.6 


12.6 


34 


27 


32 


31 


Laurelton 




I5-I 


I3-I 


35 


28 


34 


28 


Rosedale 




16.0 


14.0 


27 


30 


36 


— 


St. Albans 




14.1 


1 2. 1 


34 


28 


31 


— 


Springfield 




15-3 


^2-3 


37 


31 


33 


— 



WAR RECORD 



Although having but 400 miles of main line track, the fact remains that The 
Long Island Railroad performed a service during the War period, both for the 
United States Government and for its regular patrons, which has no parallel even 
among the largest trunk line railroads in the country. Briefly summarized, here 
is how the War record of the Long Island compares with the troop traffic of all 
the roads : 



New York City 65 

All other 
Long Island Railroads 
Railroad in the U. S. 
Total number of troops handled by all railroads on Government 

Orders, from April, 1917, to November 30th, 1919 15,724,058 

Troops moved to and from Long Islartd Camps by The Long Island 

Railroad, from July, 1917, to October 31st, 1919 3,264,315 

Troops handled by The Long Island Railroad account furloughs and 

civilian visitors to Camps 1,120,949 

Total 4,385,264 

Special troop trains operated by all roads 25,103 

Special trains operated by The Long Island Railroad to carry troops 

and visitors to and from Camps 8,024 

Total number of passengers, baggage and special freight cars required 

by all railroads to move troop traffic 327,930 

Number of cars necessary to move troop and visitors to and from 

Long Island Camps 79,6i6 

Number of tons of freight moved to and from Camps by The Long 

Island Railroad, from July, 1917, to October 31st, 1919 1,316,146 

Cars required to haul the above freight, about 38,000 

This voluminous war traffic — unequalled by any single railroad as far as the 
movement of troops is concerned — was handled safely and expeditiously with 
the same number of locomotives and the same number of passenger and freight 
cars that the Long Island owned and operated before the United States entered 
the War. The following statement has been authorized by an executive of the 
railroad : — 

"Handicapped by the inability to have new passenger cars constructed, and 
also unable to borrow cars from other lines, during the War period, still, with 
the limited equipment at its command, it was possible to take care of the ex- 
traordinary demands of the War Department, without interfering seriously with 
the greatest movement of commuters and other passengers the Long Island Rail- 
road had ever experienced. 

"There was but one way of handling this unprecedented traffic, and that 
was to keep the equipment in constant use, shopping cars and engines only when 
they had reached a stage where it would have been dangerous to continue them 
in service. Naturally, when the War was over and the troops were demobihzed, 
the passenger equipment needed such extensive repairs that this inevitable con- 
dition worked more or less hardship on the Long Island traveling public, in the 
shape of frequent train delays and overcrowding of cars, due to lack of motive 
power and an insufficient number of serviceable cars. 

"It is encouraging to announce, however, that progress is being made toward 
rejuvenating the wornout equipment, locomotives are being overhauled at outside 
shops, 100 new steel passenger cars are in the course of construction and slated 
for early delivery, and the men in the transportation service are co-operating 
wholeheartedly with the management in providing the safe, quick and efficient 
service which it Is desirous to furnish at all times, and which Long Island Rail- 
road patrons are entitled to receive." 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 




R API D TRAN SIT 




HE most important improvement in Queens Borough during the 
past decade was the completion and operation of all the rapid 
transit extensions from Manhattan and Brooklyn, as part of the 
Dual Subway System, into various sections of the Borough. 
These five extensions comprise 18 miles of subway and elevated 
roads, some of which are two track and others three track, 
making a total of 50 miles of single track. They include a total 

of 42 stations. The cost to date for their construction and equipment, including 

stations but not rolling stock, exceeds $10,000,000. 

RAPID TRANSIT MAP 

The Rapid Transit Map issued as a supplement to this book, shows more 
clearly by diiiferent colors than any number of words could, the three separate 
systems of rapid transit included in the Dual Subway System. The map effec- 
tively demonstrates how a large portion of Queens Borough has today the ad- 
vantages of the three systems of rapid transit — an advantage which is only 
shared by that part of Manhattan south of 59th Street. The reader will note 
that the B. R. T. System (indicated by green lines) does not extend further 
north in Manhattan than 59th Street, where it turns eastward into Queens Bor- 
ough ; that the Interborough Elevated System (indicated by purple lines) does not 
extend into Brooklyn at all, but does serve Queens Borough through the exten- 
sion of the Second Avenue "L" across the upper level of the Queensboro Bridge ; 
that the Interborough Subway System (indicated by red lines) serves Queens 
Borough, Manhattan, Brooklyn, and the Bronx. In addition, the map clearly 




FROM TO 

Grand Central Station, 42ND St., Queensboro Bridge Plaza Station, 
Manhattan Long Island City 

IN TEN MINUTES RUNNING TIME 



Map of Dual Subway System 

Adopted^ by the Public Service Commission of the First District and the 
Bbard of Estimate and Af^ortionment, March 19, 1913^ 

Lines of Interborough Subway System ., Red 

Lines of Interborough Elevated System . Purple 

Lines of Brooklyn Rapid Transit System- Green 



Qtreen& Borough receives greater benefits from the Dual 
Subwaj'^ System than any other Borough of New York City^ for 
the subway trains of both the Interborough and the Brooklyn 
Rapid Transit and the Second Avenue Elevated trains of the 
Interborough all operate over the Astoria and Corona extensions, 
giving these sections a single fare over all the rapid transit lines 
in Greater New York. Neither the Bronx, Brooklyn,, or Man- 
hattan north of 59th Street, have the benefit of all thiree divisions 
of transit,' as the Brooklyn Rapid Transit line does not extend 
north of 59th Street, Manhattan; and the Interborough Elevated 
lines do not reach Brooklyn. 

Residents of Jamaica, Richmond Hill, and Wood haven, are 
able to travel for a single fare through Brooklyn and northward in 
Manhattan to 59th Street. 

The figures in small circles in Queens Borough along the 
Astoria and Corona extensions, and also in Manhattan and the 
Bronx, give the time in minutes for the Interborough express 
trains from Grand Central Station to reach stations on the rapid 
transit lines. The time to the stations in the Bronx is figured for 
trains operating from Grand Central Station over the new Lexing- 
ton Avenue subway. 

■ The figures in small circles in Brooklyn and on the Jamaica 
Avenue extension, the Liberty Avenue extension, and the Lutheran 
Cemetery extension in Queens Borough, give the running time of 
Brooklyn Rapid Transit trains from Park Row or Chambers Street. 
The Fulton Street line time is over the Brooklyn Bridge, and that 
of the Lutheran Cemetery and the Jamaica Avenue and Liberty 
Avenue lines over the Williamsburg Bridge via Broadway. 



WE CERTIFY that this map is a correct representation of Greater New York, and that the 
Rapid Transit I,ines shown, are according to the Dual Subway Plan approved and contracted 
for by the Public Service Commission, and compiled from data received from the Interborough 
and Brooklyn Rapid Transit Systems. 
Copyright 1920. Rand McNally & Co, 



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Queens Borough Facts 

(Compiled by the Chamber of Commerce 
of the Borough of Queens) 

Area — 117 square miles — 37^ of New York City. 

Assessed Valuation— $650,000,000 in 1920. 

Banks — 36 banking oflfices with total resources of $750,000,000. 

Beaches — 10 miles of magnificent beaches on the Atlantic 
Ocean. 

Buildings— Plans filed 1919 for $50,000,000; Greater than every 
city in the United States except Chicago, Philadelphia, 
and Detroit. 

Factories — 2000 industrial establishments in 1920, employing 
75,000 men and women with annual products valued at 
$250,000,000. 

Parks — 20 parks with over 1,000 acres. 

Population— 500,000 in 1920. Estimated population of 
1,250,000 in 1930; 2,075,000 in 1940; 3,000,000 in 1950. 

Railroads — 71 miles of Long Island Railroad tracks aggregat- 
ing 174 miles of single tracks, most of which is electrified. 

Rapid Transit — 50 miles of single track on five extensions from 
Manhattan and Brooklyn. 

Trolley Lines — 225 miles of trolley tracks. 

Waterfront — 219 miles of waterfront (measured around piers 
and natural short line) on Newton Creek, East River, 
Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek, Jamaica Bay and Atlantic 
Ocean. 

Queens, the Borough of Magnificent 
Opportunities 

Queens, the Fastest Growing Borough 
of New York City 



New York City 67 

shows that in point of time the greater portion of Queens Borough is nearer to 
the center of Manhattan than either the Boroughs of Brooklyn or the Bronx. 

The Dual Subway System adopted by the Board of Estimate and the Public 
Service Commission on March 19, 1913, comprises not only the 296 miles of 
track, which then existed, on the elevated and subway lines of the Interborough 
Rapid Transit and the Brooklyn Rapid Transit, but 324 miles of new construc- 
tion, or a total of 620 miles of single track. 

The cost of, the entire system, old and new, was more than $600,000,000. 
All of this gigantic system of rapid transit is at the disposal of the Queens Bor- 
ough residents for a single fare. 

The transportation of passengers in New York is being revolutionized by 
these new lines in Manhattan, and other boroughs, with the extensions eastward 
into Queens Borough. 

GREAT BENEFIT TO QUEENS 

Today the majority of the residents of Queens are able to travel between 
their homes and places of business in the various boroughs of the city, conven- 
iently, rapidly and at a single fare. 

It is almost impossible to exaggerate the efifect of this improvement on the 
future development of Queens Borough. When the original subway was opened 
in Manhattan in 1904 passengers were enabled to travel in through trains from 
the Battery to Washington Heights, or points in the Bronx — distances of from 
10 to 17 miles — for a single fare. This resulted in the construction of thou- 
sands of new apartment buildings, and the establishment of thousands of new 
homes, as well as a remarkable increase in the realty values in these districts, 
which had been largely undeveloped land previous to the operation of rapid 
transit lines into them. But right across the East River, only a mile or two 
from the most congested sections of Manhattan, Queens was at that time with- 
out adequate transit facilties and had no connections whatever with the rapid 
transit lines of the city. Its only rail connection was by trolley cars, requiring 
in most cases an additional fare and one or more changes in cars to reach the 
desired destinations in the business and shopping centers ; or, by the trains of the 
Long Island Railroad with their higher rates of fare. 

The progress of Queens Borough, prior to 1915-1917, when the new rapid 
transit extensions were placed into operation, was remarkable despite the lack 
of cheaper transit facilities. What it will be in the next ten to twenty years 
with transit facilities equal, and, in many cases superior, to every other section of 
New York City, will surprise even the most confident. 

These new rapid transit extensions are now serving as an outlet for the 
congested population of Manhattan, Brooklyn and the Bronx into the thousands 
of acres of undeveloped land in all parts of Queens Borough. They will make 
cheaper homes, with more light and air, accessible to the millions of employees 
and residents in other parts of the city. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 




The Massive Concrete Structure in the Center of Queens Boulevard, 
Looking Towards the Bridge Plaza. 




Another View of the Corona "L" Looking East, Showing the Enormous 

Undeveloped Territory, only 3 to 4 Miles from the Heart of 

Manhattan, Available for the Construction of Homes. 



New York City 



69 



EXTENSIONS INTO QUEENS BOROUGH 

The following tabulation gives a list of the extensions from Manhattan and 
Brooklyn into the various sections of the Borough of Queens, all of which are 
today in operation. For the purpose of clearness these lines are divided into 
groups, viz : 

"Group A." — Extensions into the First and Second Wards from Manhat- 
tan connecting with the Transfer Station on the Bridge Plaza, Long Island City. 

"Group B." — Extensions into the Second and Fourth Wards from Brook- 
lyn. 

GROUP A 



Type of Miles No. of 



Construction 
Queensboro Subway from Grand Cen- 
tral Station to Long Island City. Subway 1.60 
Extension of Queensboro Subway to 
Queensboro Bridge Plaza, Long Island 
City. Elevated 0.89 
Astoria Line from Bridge Plaza 
northerly through Second Avenue to 
Ditmars Avenue. Elevated 2.51 
Woodside and Corona Extension 
easterly from Bridge Plaza over 
Queens Boulevard. Greenpoint Ave- 
nue and Roosevelt Avenue to Elm- 
hurst and Corona. Elevated 4.48 
Extension of Second Avenue "L," 
Manhattan, across Queensboro Bridge 
to Long Island City. Elevated 1.64 
Broadway-5gth Street Line from 7th 
Avenue under East River to Long 
Island City. 



Tracks 



Operation 



By 


Date 




I. R. T. 


June 22, 


191S 


I. R. T. 


Nov. 5, 


1916 


I. R. T. 
B. R. T. 


Feb. T, 


1917 
-1920 


I. R. T. 
3 . R. T. 


April 21, 


1917 
-1920 


I. R. T. 


July 22,. 


1917 



Subway 

GROUP B 

Myrtle Avenue Extension to Luth 



2.23 



B. R. T. 



June 



1920 



eran Cemetery, Ridgewood. 
Extension from City Line, Brooklyn 
over Liberty Avenue, to Lefferts 
Avenue, Richmond Hill. 
Extension from Cypress Hills, Brook- 
lyn, over Jamaica Avenue to Grand 
Street, Jamaica. 



Elevated i.oo 



Elevated 2.16 



Elevated 4.44 



B. R. T. Eeb. 22, 191S 



B.R. T. Sept. 25, 191S 



B. R. T. 



May 28, 1 91 7 

(Richmond Hill) 

July 3, 1918 

(Jamaica) 



RAPID TRANSIT CENTERS 



There are today three important rapid transit centers in Queens Borough as 

follows : — 

1. BRIDGE PLAZA, LONG ISLAND CITY. 

From this point, which is not only the most important rapid transit center 
in Queens Borough, but one of the most important in the entire city, rapid transit 
lines radiate in all directions. 

(a) To the north, a three track elevated line through Jackson Avenue to Second 
Avenue and Ditmars Avenue, Astoria. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



(b) To the east, across Diagonal Street and the Sunnyside Yards to Queens 
Boulevard, thence over the concrete structure to Greenpoint Avenue, v^'here 
the steel structure begins and extends to Woodside, Winfield, Jackson 
Heio-hts, Elmhurst and Corona. This line will later be extended to 
Flushing and other sections of the Third Ward. 

(c) To the south, the Queensboro Subway to the Grand Central Station, Man- 
hattan, which will be extended to Times Square, enabling passengers to 
transfer without an extra fare to the through north and south lines, oper- 
ated by the Interborough on the east and west sides of Manhattan, into 
Brooklyn and the Bronx. 

(d) To the west, the 60th Street tunnel of the B. R. T. under the East River, 
connecting with the Broadway-59th Street Line ; and the Second Avenue 
"L" of the Interborough Rapid Transit, across the upper level of the 
Queensboro Bridge operated to Park Row. 

2. JAMAICA. 

While the entire Fourth Ward receives great benefits from the 
elevated extensions operated by the Brooklyn Rapid Transits through 
Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Morris Park and Richmond Hill, Jamaica has 
become a greater transit center than ever. It is not only the railroad cen- 
ter of Long Island, but is also a great trolley center. 




Joint Transfer Station at Woodside 



New York City 71 

3. WOOD SIDE. 

At the intersection of Roosevelt Avenue, Woodside and the six tracks 
of the Long Island Railroad there has been constructed and placed in 
operation a joint transfer station that is of the utmost importance to all 
sections of Queens served by the North Shore Division, Main Line, and 
the Rockaway Division of the Long Island Railroad. Passengers using 
these divisions are able to transfer conveniently at this point to and from 
the Corona "L" operated by the Queensboro Subway and Second Avenue 
"L" trains of the I. R. T. and the Broadway-59th Street Line of the B. 
R. T. In other words, all Long Island Railroad passengers have at their 
disposal at this point, the whole of the city's comprehensive transit system 
for a single fare. 

The elevated railroad tracks and platforms are on the highest level 
and the Long Island Railroad tracks and platforms are on the lowest 
level. Between these two levels a mezzanine floor facilitates the inter- 
change of passengers. 

QUEENSBORO SUBWAY 

On June 22, 1915, the operation of train service began in the Queensboro 
Subway between Lexington Avenue, Manhattan, and Jackson Avenue, Long 
Island City. This was the first rapid transit service directly connecting the two 
boroughs, and an event which marked a new epoch in the history of Queens and 
the commercial relations of the two sections of the city so near to each other but 
separated by the East River. 

Although this tunnel, which had formerly been known as the "Steinway 
Tunnel" and "Belmont Tube" was completed in October 1907, suits in the 
Court to test the legality of the franchise prevented its being operated, thus deny- 
ing Queens Borough the advantage of this service for almost eight years. In 
the meantime, the Interborough Subway trains were operated ten miles north- 
ward to points in the Bronx and Manhattan giving the resident of Westchester 
County greater advantages from the subway system- of New York than enjoyed 
by any section of Queens Borough itself. 

The operation of the Queensboro Subway was extended Feb. 15th 1916 to 
the Hunterspoint Avenue Station, and on November 5th 1916, to Court Square 
(11th Street) and to the Bridge Plaza Station. 

The growth of traffic on this line can be shown by the increase in ticket sales 
for the corresponding months of the past five years. 

TICKET SALES 

Station July 1915 July 1916 July 1917 July 1918 Jan. 1920 

Jackson Avenue 102,250 207,230 178,440 218,700 371,510 

Hunterspoint Avenue — 26,780 31,090 S3,490 " 54,540 

Court Square (nth St.) — — 57,200 73,600 104,260 

Total 102,250 234,010 266,730 345.790 530,310 



72 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

CHRONOLOGY OF QUEENSBORO SUBWAY 

1887 — N. Y. and L. I._R. R. Co. organized to build tunnel, with William 

Steinway as leading spirit. 
May 1892— Construction began in Long Island City. 
1903 — Belmont Syndicate acquires tunnel franchise for $80,000. 
January 16, 1906 — Maj^or McClellan orders probe of franchise validity. 
October 29, 1906 — Work begun on extension of tunnel to Van Alst Avenue. 
January 1907 — Supreme Court upholds validity of franchise. 
February 6, 1907 — City begins annulment proceedings. 
May 4, 1907 — Property owners' injunction dissolved. 
May 16, 1907 — North tube cleared. 

July 31, 1907 — Public Service Commission starts validity probe. 
August 8, 1907 — South tube cleared. 
September 24, 1907 — First official trip of inspection. 
November 14, 1907 — Queens residents demand operation of tunnel. 
November 22, 1907 — Appellate Division upholds franchise. 
December 10, 1907 — Justice Davis decides against franchise. 
March 6, 1909 — Appellate Division settles all points of controversy in favor 

of tunnel company. 
June 14, 1910 — Governor Hughes signs bill permitting franchise to go to 

Interboro. 
September 27, 1910 — Interboro offers to turn tunnel over to city. 
November 18, 1910 — • City officials inspect tunnel. 
Januarj^ 2, 1912 — State begins suit. 
March 19, 1913 — Dual subway contracts signed, assuring operation of tunnel 

as a part of the Dual Rapid Transit system. 
April 3, 1914 — Interboro delivers assignment of tunnel rights to city. 
April 13, 1914 — Reconstruction contract awarded. 

June 16 1915 — Name of tunnel is changed to "Queensboro Subway," at re- 
quest of Queensboro Chamber of Commerce. 
June 22, 1915 — Tunnel is formally opened for operation. 

EXTENSION TO TIMES SQUARE 

The Dual Subway Contracts provide for the construction of an extension of 
the Queensboro Subway westward from its present terminus at Grand Central 
Station to Times Square. The delay in starting this work has been due first, to 
the impossibility, from an engineering standpoint, to begin the construction work 
until the Diagonal Station at 42nd Street, connecting the Park Avenue and Lex- 
ington Avenue Subways, was completed. This was placed in operation in 
August 1918. Since that time new ideas have been advanced for this extension, 
which, if adopted, will be a big improvement over the original plan. 

The original plan would have simply continued the present subway under 
42nd Street to a point between Sixth Avenue and Broadway where all pas- 
sengers, transferring to the north and south subway on the West side, would be 
compelled to walk an average distance of 750 feet, or nearly four city blocks. 

Both new plans which have been suggested propose deflecting the line under 
Bryant Park to 41st Street where it could be constructed 

(a) to a point directly under the middle of the Seventh Avenue station plat- 
forms of the Interborough at Times Square, thus requiring only a short 
walk up one flight of stairs to reach the express and local trains operating 
on the west side of Manhattan ; or 

(b) so that direct connection with the local tracks of the Seventh Avenue Sub- 
way could be made for through operation between lower Manhattan and 
the extensions in Queens to Astoria and Corona. 



New York City 73 

The latter plan is not only practical from an engineering and operating 
standpoint but entirely feasible in every way. The only objection which has 
been made to it is the fact that it would decrease the number of local trains, 
operating on the west side line, north of 42nd Street. As it is understood that 
the local west side tracks are being used to only 66% of their capacity, it would 
be possible to add the Queensboro subAvay trains south of 42nd Street without 
cutting down the service north of Times Square. 

BRIDGE PLAZA STATION 

On October 7th, 1913 contract was delivered to Snare & Triest, amount 
$884,859 for the construction of the Bridge Plaza Station. Additional work 
brought the cost to over $1,000,000. The operation to the station started Novem- 
ber 6, 1916. 

The Bridge Plaza Station is 480 feet long with two levels, each having four 
tracks, or eight tracks in all. The four tracks on the lower level of the station 
are for trains to Manhattan, while the four tracks on the upper level are for 
trains to Astoria, Corona, and Brooklyn. The north platforms, and two tracks 
on both levels, are for B. R. T. trains operated through the 60th Street Tunnel ; 
while the south platforms, and two tracks on each level, are for the Queensboro 
Subway and Second Avenue "L" trains of the Interborough. 

The station has entrances on the Bridge Plaza at Crescent Street and Pros- 
pect Street. The entrances lead to a mezzanine floor and above are two levels, 
all trains on the same level going in the same general direction. 

The running time from this station through the Queensboro Subway to 
the Grand Central Station is approximately ten minutes, and over the Second 
Avenue "L" to Park Row twenty-five minutes. 

The growth in traffic is shown by the increase in the number of tickets sold 

as follows : — 

Date Number of Tickets Sold 
January 1917 127,000 

January 1918 209,300 

January 1920 219,500 

ASTORIA EXTENSION 

On March 11, 1913, contract was delivered to Cooper & Evans, amount 
$860,743, for the construction of the Astoria Extension. Although the work 
was completed by January 1915, this extension remained idle until February 1917 
awaiting the completion of the Bridge Plaza Station and the extension of the 
Queensboro Subway. 

The terminus of this line at Ditmars Avenue is less than four miles in a 
straight line from Grand Central Station, a distance less than that to 125th 
Street, Manhattan, or to the Battery. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



The operation of the Astoria Extension was an important step in the re- 
making of New York City, connecting as it does, the most congested and least 
developed portions of the city.. These two boroughs of the city, practically 
within sight of each other, but with the East River between them, were separated 
almost as much by the fact that in money it cost twice as much, and in time three 
or four times as much, to pass from one section to another, as between other 
sections of the city. 

By the opening of this line, the fare was halved and the time quartered to 
and from a section both ripe for development and less developed than any other. 

Two months after this line was placed in operation the United States en- 
tered the European War and shortly thereafter the restrictions placed upon all 
new building construction made impossible for this section to capitalize this great 
asset. Had the line been placed in operation when it was completed in 1914 or 
1915, hundreds of new apartments would have been completed before the United 
States entered the war. Now, in 1920, three years after operation started, this 
community is beginning to realize the immense advantages of its excellent transit 
facilities and is rapidly being developed with up-to-date apartment houses, which 
will offer those who live there superior living accommodations. 

The growth of the passenger traffic is indicated by the ticket sales at the 6 
stations on this line shown bv the following table. 







Ticket Sales 




Station 


Feb. 1917 


Feb. 1918 


Feb. 1919 


Jan. 1920 


Beebe Ave. 


58,500 


53,900 


45,000 


67,000 


Washington Ave. 


30,000 


42,780 


53400 


73,700 


Broadway 


67.740 


108,600 


130,100 


156,200 


Grand Avenue 


65,620 


96,300 


131,600 


164,400 


Hoyt Avenue 


53,900 


88,700 


107,000 


131,200 


Ditmars Avenue 


30,358 


55,220 


68,700 


77,500 



Total 



306,118 



445,500 



535-800 



670,000 




Station at Broadway and Second Avenue 



New York City 75 

CORONA EXTENSION 

The contract for the construction of the extension to Woodside, Winfield, 
Elmhurst, Jackson Heights, and Corona, was delivered on March 11, 1913 to 
the E. E. Smith Contracting Company, amount $2,063,588. 

On April 21, 1917 service was inaugurated through the Queensboro Subway 
at Grand Central Station, Manhattan, to the terminus of this line at Alburtis 
Avenue, Corona. 

This three track line, nearly five miles in length, extends through a territory 
in the First and Second Wards of Queens, which today is but partially developed 
with detached dwellings and large modern apartment houses. The farthest 
point on this line is only six and one-half miles from Grand Central Station, 
or the same distance as the subway station in the Bronx at 149th Street. 

The vast area served by this route is unequalled anywhere in New York 
City for the construction of apartment houses. Nowhere else in the city can 
there be found broad undeveloped acres within so short a distance of the heart 
of Manhattan. 

The Corona "L" as well as the Astoria "L" are the only two rapid transit 
extensions in New York City, which are operated by both subway and elevated 
trains of the I. R. T. and subway trains of the B. R. T. This dual operation 
gives advantages to the communities served by these routes, which are not en- 
joyed by any other section of the city ; in short, the Corona and Astoria exten- 
sions hold a unique place in the transportation system of New York City. 

New York City, at last, can avail itself of its largest borough, with all the 
advantages which it affords for better living facilities. A great and sparsely 
settled section is now within the single fare zone and the growth of passenger 
traffic on this line as shown by the following table of ticket sales at the eleven 
stations, is convincing proof that the people prefer going out into the open to 
going up in the air for living quarters and it gives a foretaste of the far-reaching 
adjustments of the residence sections of New York which these new extensions 
into Queens are bringing about. 







Ticket 


Sales 




Stations 


Ma.v 1 91 7 


May 1918 


Jan. 1919 


Jan. 1920 


Rawson Street 


13-560 


33,940 


41,600 


49,400 


Lowery Street 


1,691 


4,945 


4,140 


5,280 


Bliss Street 


18,300 


34,680 


21,200 


19,340 


Lincoln Avenue 


13,050 


21,630 


17,000 


t8,i6o 


Woodside 


42,100 


72,840 


65,600 


82,260 


Fiske Ave. 


23,050 


35,450 


36,000 


45,560 


Broadway 


13,9^0 


16,450 


18,800 


24,020 


2Sth Street 


35,280 


52,740 


55,260 


66,400 


Elmhurst Avenue 


31,000 


48,900 


53,200 


59,400 


Junction Avenue 


52,740 


71,300 


76,260 


92.765 


Alburtis Avenue 


118,100 


162,100 


172,300 


223,600 



Total 362,851 554,975 562,260 640,625 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 




This is NOT the elevated extension to Corona. Astoria, or South Richmond 
Hih. It is a photograph taken in 1879 looking north from 89th St. and Columbus 
Ave., Manhattan. The view below was taken at the same spot ten years later, 
or in 1889. The same remarkable development is bound to follow in Queens 
along the new rapid transit extensions. 




Courtesy Interborongh Rapid Transit Co. 



New York City 



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EXTENSION TO FLUSHING 

On April 22, 1913, the Public Service Commission adopted the "Flushing- 
Bayside Route." It was approved by the Board of Estimate on June 12, 1913 
and the necessary property owners consents obtained to complete its legalization. 

In 1915 the Long Island Railroad, realizing the competition which this line 
when completed and operated, would give the North Shore Division, which it 
closely parallels, offered to lease its tracks from Corona through Flushing, to the 
Nassau County Line at Little Neck, and to College Point and Whitestone, The 
accompaning illustration shows clearly what a large proportion of the Third 
Ward of the Borough of Queens would have been benefitted had this plan been 
consummated. 




Proposed Extension of Rapid Transit from Corona, through Flushing, 
TO Little Neck and Whitestone, using tracks of Long Island Railroad. 



Failure on the part of the city, the Public Service Commission, and the Rail- 
road Company to agree on terms ; the unwillingness indicated by the I. R. T. 
and B. R. T. to operate their trains over the tracks if leased ; and the placing of 
the Railroad under Federal control in 1918, all combined to prevent the accom- 
plishment of this great improvement for the transportation of the residents of 
the Third Ward to and from Manhattan. 

Two miles distant from the present terminus of the Corona "L" is the 
attractive and populous residential section of Flushing, all of whose residents 
must now pay two fares in order to use the rapid transit lines of the city. 

In view of the fact that the I. R. T. and B. R. T. require immediately ade- 
quate storage yards and car repair shops, along the Corona "L" and the most 
advantageous location for these yards and shops is on the Flushing Meadows, 
about half way between the present terminus of the line and Flushing (Main 
Street), it is believed that when the line is extended it will be built the entire 
•distance to Flushing. 

While this will not serve directly all of the residents of the Third Ward, it 
lis a big step forward and the extension to this point should be built without delay. 



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LUTHERAN CEMETERY EXTENSION 

The first extension from Brooklyn into Queens Borough was the "Lutheran 
Cemetery Extension," a continuation of the Myrtle Avenue Line in Brooklyn, 
for a distance of one mile into the Ridgewood section of Oueens Borough. The 
contract for the construction and elevation of this two track road was delivered 
on February 27th, 1914 to F. W. Burnham, cost S500.000. The line was placed 
in operation February 22, 1915. 

The operation of this road enables the residents of the densely populated 
Ridgewood section of Queens Borough to reach, for a single fare, all sections 
of Brooklyn and Manhattan served by the B. R. T. 

The passenger traffic on this extension is shown by the following table of 
ticket sales at the 4 stations in Oueens Borough : — 



Stations 


March 191 5 


March 191 7 


Jan. 1920 


Seneca Avenue 


122,928 


122,583 


158,507 


Forest Avenue 


170,262 


170,757 


226,316 


Fresh Pond Road 


94,648 


123,810 ■ 


253,316 


Metropolitan Avenue 


25,554 


27,772 


61,131 



Total 



699,924 



413,392 444,922 

LIBERTY AVENUE EXTENSION 

The second rapid transit extension from Brooklyn into Queens was the 
operation of the Liberty Avenue "L" from the "City Line" (Brooklyn), to Lef- 
ferts Avenue, Richmond Hill, a distance of over two miles of two track road, 
serving the important communities of Woodhaven, Ozone Park, Morris Park, 
and South Richmond Hill. 





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The Operation of the Liberty Avenue Elevated, which can be seen in the 

Background, Resulted in the Construction of Hundreds 

of these Multiple Family Dwellings. 



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The contract for the construction of this hne was deHvered on February 9, 
1914 to the Phoenix Bridge Company, amount $707,661. Through operation 
to the terminus of this hne began September 25th 1915. 

In this section of the Borough there have been erected since the completion 
and operation of the Hne more single family and multiple family dwellings of 
moderate cost than in any other section in the city. Block after block of homes 
have been erected and sold, in many instances, before the foundations were com- 
pleted. 

This rapid transit line serves a vast area south of the Atlantic Division of 
the Long Island Railroad. The actual running time from Park Row to the 
terminus of this line is less than that required to reach Washington Heights on 
the subway. 

The passenger traffic on the six stations in Queens Borough on this exten- 
sion is as follows : — 







Ticket Sales 




Stations 


Jan. iQi6 


Jan. 1918 


Jan. 1920 


Hudson Street 


6,120 


6,423 


8,291 


Boyd Avenue 


17,557 


20,018 


27,358 


Rockaway Boulevard 


28,185 


27,368 


30,290 


Oxford Avenue 


12,955 


16,861 


21,353 


Greenwood Avenue 


11,452 


16,076 


31,155 


Lefiferts Avenue 


41,760 


49,357 


57,565 



Total 



118,029 136,103 

JAMAICA AVENUE EXTENSION 



The third rapid transit line from Brooklyn into Queens operated by the 
B. R. T. was the Jamaica Avenue "L," an extension 4^4 miles in length from 
Cypress Hills, Brooklyn, to Grand Street, Jamaica. Operation to Greenwood 
Avenue. Richmond Hill started May 28, 1911 and to the terminus in Jamaica on 
July 3, 1918. 




Jamaica Avenue "L" Looking West 



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The contract for the first section was awarded to Post & McCord, amount 
$724,340; for the second section to Conners Brothers, amount $726,168; for 
the stations to P. J. Carlin Construction Company, amount $280,700; or a total 
cost of $1,731,208. 

Jamaica Avenue, over which this railroad is operated, is today almost solidly 
built up with stores, tenements and homes the entire distance from the Brooklyn 
Line to Jamaica. Thousands of new homes are now being built in the territory 
served by this line, which has today the largest passenger traffic of any of the 
five extensions within the Borough of Queens. 

The operation of this line, which means so much for the future industrial, 
■commercial and residential growth of Jamaica, Richmond Hill and Woodhaven, 
marked the consummation of eight and one-half years effort on the part of the 
former Fourth Ward Transit Committee which was organized in 1910, and the 
Queensboro Chamber of Commerce, which was organized in 1911. Passengers 
can travel for a single fare the entire distance from Jamaica, through Brook- 
lyn, to downtown Manhattan and northward on the Broadway-59th Street Subway 
to Long Island City and over the extensions to Astoria and Corona. 

The growth of traffic on this route as shown by the ticket sales has been as 
follows : — 







Ticket Sales 




Stations 


August 1917 


August 1 918 


Jan. 1920 


Elderts Lane 


44.440 


54,527 


55.271 


Forest Parkway 


83,472 


94.437 


122,349 


Woodhaven Avenue 


.. 69,659 


71,479 


95,100 


Freedom Ave. (i02nd St.) 


49.547 


63,237 


80,072 


Greenwood Ave. (iiith St.) 


67,068 


63,643 


84,603 


Spruce St. (i2ist St.) 


— 


31,775 


41,547 


Metropolitan Avenue 


— 


11,046 


15,709 


Queens Boulevard 


— 


20,383 


24,393 


Sutphin Road 


— 


46,348 


37,245 


Newark Ave. (i6oth St.) 


— 


99,456 


102,444 


Cliffside Ave. (i68th St.) 


— 


79.051 


51.348 



Total 



314.186 



635.362 



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SIXTIETH STREET TUNNEL 

The Dual Subway contracts provided for the operation of both the Second 
Avenue "L" trains of the Interborough and the Broadway-59th Street subway 
trains of the B. R. T. across the Queensboro Bridge to connect with the transfer 
station at the Bridge Plaza, Long Island City. When it was realized that the 
proposed arrangement for carrying the B. R. T. trains across the Bridge on the 
vehicular roadway would have resulted in a serious reduction of the present width 
of 52 feet, every effort was made to have the plan changed so as to leave the 
roadway undisturbed, and still retain both new lines of transit. 



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The Degnon Contracting Company presented a plan in December 1914 to 
the Board of Estimate for the building of two tunnels under the East River at 
60th Street for the operation of the B. R. T. subway trains. The advantages of 
this plan for leaving the roadway intact, for avoiding any change for rearrange- 
ment of the present lines in Queens and for the early operation of both the 
Queensboro subway and the 2nd Avenue elevated trains, were so great that 
the Board of Estimate on February 19, 1915 officially approved the tunnel 
method of bringing the B. R. T. cars to Queens and rec[uested the Public Service 
Commission to present a bill to the legislature authorizing the tunnel. 

The contract for the construction of the tunnel was awarded August 3, 1916, 
to Patrick McGovern & Co., for $4,194, 797. The work was started September 
12, 1916 when the shaft was sunk at Vernon Avenue on the Queens Borough 
side. 

The tunnel was "holed through" on October 15, 1918, and the time since has 
been devoted to lining the tunnel with concrete, installation of ties, running 
tracks, third rail, cable and signal equipment. 

The two tubes are 18 feet in diameter, with a total length of 16,176 feet, or 
approximately 3 miles. The distance from the Bridge Plaza station to the 
portal is 2700 feet or approximately ^ mile aiid from that point to the west 
side of Vernon Avenue, the construction was the "cut and cover" type. 

At one point the tube is 125 feet below water level. This is in the center 
of the West channel. As many as 1,000 men worked on the job at one time. 

The contract for the track installation was awarded to Thomas Crimmins 
Contracting Company for $94,973, on June 11, 1919. 



32 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

CROSSTOWN ROUTE 

In 1912 when the various routes to be included in the Dual Subway contracts 
were being considered by the Public Service Commission and the Board of Esti- 
mate, the Queens Chamber of Commerce urged the construction of the Crosstown 
Route which would provide a through north and south rapid transit line connecting 
Queens with Brooklyn without the necessity, as at present, of crossing and re- 
crossing the East River to travel to and from these boroughs, via the rapid transit 

system. 

Opposition developed, however, against the construction of the line as origin- 
ally planned. This opposition had its inception in the antagonism of the property 
owners in the Franklin Avenue section of Brooklyn, who objected to the con- 
struction of an elevated railroad in front of their premises, and this opposition 
extended to other sections of the suggested route, finally preventing it from being 
included in the Dual Subway contracts signed in March 1913. 

Brooklyn more than Queens has suffered from this lack of foresight and 
attempts have been made since by the Brooklyn business interests to revive the 
matter. The determination as to whether the route, when constructed, shall be 
subway or elevated in Brooklyn is a matter involving financial considerations and 
local residential pride. The route after it crosses Newtown Creek naturally must 
become elevated in Queens to connect with the Bridge Plaza Station. 

All interests in all sections of both Queens and Brooklyn should work together 
now to secure the adoption of a definite policy for the form of construction and 
financing the cost of the north and south line between the two boroughs, which 
is an essential feature in any proper solution of the transportation problems of 
New York City. 

The benefits of such a line are too great to long delay its construction. It 
would make available the great labor supply in Brooklyn for the hundreds of 
industrial plants in Queens; give the residents of both boroughs improved and 
increased facilities; and decrease the distance, cost and time of travel between 
these two great boroughs. 

DUAL OPERATION OF THE ASTORIA AND 
. CORONA EXTENSIONS 

The difference in the width of the cars operated by the Interboro and the 
Brooklyn Rapid Transit has caused the delay in the extension of the service from 
the Bridge Plaza over the extensions to Astoria and Corona. The station plat- 
forms, location of tracks and third rail on these extensions when built were con- 
structed for the operation of the nine foot wide cars of the subway and elevated 
trains of the Interboro. In order that the ten foot wide cars of the B. R. T. may 
operate through these stations, a strip from the station platform must be re- 
moved so as to provide sufficient clearance. Other structural changes are also 
required. 



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83 




>N]T)C OCEAN 



^ On the rapid transit map, issued as a supplement to this book, the proposed 
Crosstown Route is shown by a dotted green Hne extending southward from 
Bridge Plaza Station m Long Island City over Vernon Avenue and across New- 
town Creek, through the Greenpoint, Williamsburg and Bedford sections of 
Brooklyn and joining with the Fulton Street Elevated Line at Franklin Avenue 
where the Brighton Beach Line operates southward through Flatbush and Sheeps- 
head Bay to Coney Island. ^ 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



THE PART PLAYED BY THE QUEENSBORO 
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

This chapter would not be complete without a statement regarding the part 
which the Oueensboro Chamber of Commerce took in bringing about the con- 
struction and operation of the five extensions, with their fifty miles of single 
track in Queens Borough, carrying today more than 150,000 passengers 
daily. 




Extensions which the Tnterborough of- 
fered to build in ^Manhattan, Brooklyn 
and the Bronx. 



Proposed "Triborough System" for 
which plans were prepared by the original 
Public Service Commission, 1907-1910. 



New York City 85 

The Queensboro Chamber of Commerce, more than any one other single 
agency, may be credited for this great accomphshment which has made the 
Borough today a real integral part of New York City. 

The two maps, which are herewith reproduced from an article published in 
the "Outlook" in July, 1910, show what consideration was being given at that 
time by the operating companies and city officials to the need of Queens Borough 
for direct connection with the rapid transit system of the City. Although new 
lines were being projected 10 to 15 miles northward in the Bronx and an equal 
distance southward in Brooklyn, nothing was planned for Queens Borough, only 
a mile or two across the East River from the center of the City. 

The late Mayor Gaynor termed as "cornfield routes" the lines which Queens 
asked to have constructed. Today these "cornfield routes" are producing the 
greatest crop of factories and homes that have ever been produced in any section 
of New York City. 

It was not until the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce was organized in 
1911 that any recognition was secured from the city officials and operating com- 
panies. The rapid transit extensions into Queens described in this chapter, were 
included in the Dual Subway Contracts as a result of the organized, continuous 
and persistent efiforts on the part of the business men of Queens Borough work- 
ing through the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce. 

Compare the two maps shown on the opposite page with the Rapid Transit 
Map, printed in colors between pages 66 and 67, and you will appreciate what 
far-reaching effects this great accomplishment will have on the future develop- 
ment of Queens Borough and New York City. 

GROWTH IN PASSENGER TRAFFIC 

The increase in the number of passengers carried on all the rapid transit 
extensions in Queens Borough is shown by the following tabulation of ticket 
sales for certain months from the time that the first line was opened in 1915 to 
January 1920 : — 

MONTH 

March 1915 
July 1915 
Oct. 1915 
Dec. 1916 
Feb. 1917 
May 1917 
July 1917 
Sept. 1918 
Jan. 1920 





TICKET SALES 




B. K. T. 


I. R. T. 


Total 


413.392 


— 


413,392 


384,549 


102,250 


486,799 


553,759 


170,780 


724,539 


601,913 


557,824 


1,159,73- 


515,884 


746,878 


I,262,752.' 


689,681 


1,216,031 


1,905,712 


924,503 


1,121,730 


2,046,233 


1,278,142 


1,588,415 


2,866,557 


1,596,007 


2,141,882 


3,837,889 



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I N D U 



QUEENS BOROUGH AS A MANUFACTURING 

CENTER 

That industry is the basis upon which all community growth and prosperity 
largely depends is best proven by the figures compiled by the United States 
Government, of the manufacturing plants and the number of industrial employees 
in New York city, which show that one out of every seven persons is so employed, 
and therefore one out of every three persons in the city is supported by such 
employment. 

The importance of the industrial development of Queens Borough, — past, 

present and future, — and its relation to the residential, commercial and financial 
development of the Borough, requires no further comment. 

ZONING LAW 

The best evidence that Queens Borough is destined to become the greatest 
manufacturing center in the East is the large proportion of its vast area which 
has been set aside for this purpose. In 1916, when every street in the entire 
city was laid out as either (a) unrestricted, (b) business, or (c) residential, 
22,000 acres of Queens Borough's 75,000 acres were placed in the unrestricted 
zone. This means that 34 square miles — an area within five square miles of 
being as large as the entire Borough of the Bronx — has been set aside for the 
present and future industrial development. While this area is only 30 percent 
of the total area of Queens, it is 50 percent larger than the entire area of Man- 
hattan Island. Were this industrial area to be lifted entirely out of the Borough, 
there would still remain 53,000 acres for residential and commercial purposes, 
or, an area greater than that of the Borough of Brooklyn. This presents in a 
striking manner the vast extent of the industrial possibilities of Queens Borough. 

Furthermore, these building restrictions were placed upon the city at a 
time which gave Queens every advantage for controlling, in a definite and as- 
sured manner, the harmonious development of the entire Borough. Where fac- 
tories and homes have been built alongside of each other in the more highly 
developed parts of the city, resulting often in the deterioration of residential com- 
munities, this condition cannot arise in the future in Queens Borough. Factories 
will be grouped by themselves in definite areas, set aside for that purpose, while 
homes will be built in other restricted areas. Queens Borough will not grow in hap- 



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87 



hazard fashion. Its industrial and residential areas, while separate and distinct, 
are perfectly coordinated. 

DEVELOPEMENT PRIOR TO 1909 

It is an interesting fact that even in 1909, prior to the construction of the 
Oueensboro Bridge, and prior to the operation of the Pennsylvania — Long Island 
Railroad tunnels, the New York Connecting Railroad, and the rapid transit 
extensions, the Borough of Queens, considered as a city by itself, exceeded every 
other city in the United States except 14 in the annual value of its manufacturing 
products. The United States Census of 1909 showed that Queens Borough at 
that time had 771 factories employing 23,891 men and women, and with capital 
invested amounting to $145,307,000, turned out manufactured products for that 
year valued at $151,180,000. For that same year Queens Borough exceeded 
every one of 19 separate states of the Union in the value of its manufactured 
products, 18 states in the amount of capital invested in manufacturing, 11 states 
in the number of factory employees and 10 states in the number of manufactur- 
ing establishments. 




Million dollar printing and binding plant of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 
now being erected on Thomson Avenue, Long Island City. The company will remove from 
its present location at Madison Avenue and 24th Sreet (Metropolitan Building), Manhat- 
tan. The J. F. Tapley Co., who bound this publication, have leased 100,000 square feet 
of floor space in this building. 



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Looking south from Qiaeensboro Bridge in Long Island City. Numerous attractive 
industrial plants, mostly concrete construction, have been erected in this area in the past 
five years. 

The nineteen states which Queens exceeded in the vakie of manufactured 
products were : — 

Alabama Idaho Oregon 

Arizona Mississippi South Carohna 

Arkansas Montana South Dakota 

Colorado Nevada Utah 

Delaware New Mexico Vermont 

Florida North Dakota Wyoming 

Oklahoma 

That these figures are even more true today is evident from the amazing 

industrial growth which has taken place in Oueens during the past ten years, 
a growth that has become the talk of New York. 




View from Sunnyside Yards looking east. The first glimpse of Queens Borough all 
Long Island Railroad passengers obtain when emerging from East River tunnels from 
Pennsylvania Station. 

Photograph, taken April 1920, shows the concrete pouring towers which have become 
symbolic of the industrial growth of Queens. 



New York City 




Among the factories shown here are the American Chicle Co., Old Reliable Motor 
Truck Corporation, Rolls-Royce Service Station, Wappler Electric Co., Houpert [Machine 
Co., Repetti, Inc., Perfect Window Regulator Co., Lauraine Magneto Co. 

INDUSTRIAL GROWTH 1909—1916 

Every live years the Bureau of Census of the United States Department 
of Commerce compiles complete figures regarding manufacturing in each village, 
city and state in the country. The census figures for 1914 show a remarkable 
growth in Queens Borough over the previous census of 1909. In the order of 
their importance, from a percentage standpoint, the increase in the several items 
was as follows : 

Salaried Employees 62.7% 

Salaries 50.8% 

Wages 35.0% 

Wage Earners 30.7% 

Capital Invested 29.0% 

Number of Factories 26.6% 




At the extreme left is the Service Station of the Packard Motor Car Co. of New York. 
Then comes the $500,000 Service, Sales and Export Building of the White Co. { ^ilotor 
Trucks), the $1,000,000 building of the American Chicle Co., the handsome structure of 
the American Ever Ready Co., and the huge sunlighted factory of the Loose-Wiles Biscuit 
Co., where Sunshine Biscuits are made. The last four buildings are all on the property 
of the Degnon Realty and Terminal Co. 



90 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

It must be remembered that 1914 was a year of marked industrial depression 
due to the beginning of the World War, while 1916 was a year of intense activity. 
The following table gives the census figures for 1909 and 1914, and also for 
1916, when an industrial survey was made by the Queensboro Chamber of Com- 
merce. 

1909 1914 1916 

No. of Factories 771 975 1,169 

No. of Employees 27,841 37,201 63,964 

Value of Products $151,488,000 $164,789,000 $323,198,000 

Capital Invested $145,307,000 $187,990,000 Not obtained 

Salaries and Wages Paid $18,546,000 $25,750,000 $46,921,000 

The publication of an analysis of the industrial survey of Queens for 1916 

prompted the A'czv York Herald at that time, in an article entitled "Queens Has 

Nothing So Huge As Its Industries," to state : — 

'Tt is the industries that give the city its overflowing population, its 
million tenements, its thousands of office and mercantile buildings, its 
beehive factories, its hotels, restaurants, theatres, department stores, 
and shops, its wealth of gold, its multitude of spenders, its dazzling splen- 
dors, its world-wide influence ; and that makes necessary its amazing 
web of transit lines, its countless automobiles, its great railroad ter- 
minals, its constantly increasing supply of electric power and the daily 
extension of its telephone system. 

''Industry is the key that has unlocked to New York all the tightly- 
barred doors of the world, and it is through these now wide open doors 
that the gold of all the world is flowing into the coffers of the merchants 
and the pockets of the workers in this, the city of world-wide demand 
and unlimited supply. 

"Assessed values, estimated at more than half a billion dollars, tell the 
tale of the effect of industrial enterprise on Queens Borough's realty." 
The records of the Bureau of Buildings of Queens show that plans were filed 

during the past ten years for factory construction amounting to $34,507,808, as 

follows : — 

Year Value Year Value 

1910 $1,408,317 1915 $1,498,305 

191 1 2,125,360 1916 2,829,275 

1912 3,318,920 1917 2,103,847 

1913 1,726,642 1918 2,782,332 

1914 2,815,130 1919 14,199,100 



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INDUSTRIAL CENSUS OF QUEENSBORO— 1916 



Groups of Industries No. Plants 

METAL WORKING INDUSTRY 276 

Smelters and refineries 2 

Foundries (all kinds) 13 

Machine shops, machine maniifac- 
facturers and metal specialties.... 81 

Sheet metal works 40 

Structural steel fabrication and iron 

works 31 

Electric and gas specialties 12 

Wire Goods 5 

Automobiles and parts 47 

Aeroplanes and parts I 

Ship and boat building 12 

Car Repairing 15 

Gas & water works ; pub. service plant 17 

WOOD WORKING GROUP 146 

Lumber yards and house trim and 

cabinet shops 70 

Furniture 18 

Caskets 4 

Pianos and musical instruments 13 

Cooperage . , 6 

Carriages and wagons 35 

TEXTILE INDUSTRIES 30 

Silk goods 18 

Carpets and rugs 2 

Dyeing and finishing 9 

Cordage i 

KNIT GOODS 2Z 

Garment and needle industry. 160 

PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS 10 

STONE AND STONE PRODUCTS 109 

Cut stone 38 

Monumental work 55 

Cement products 13 

Asphalt products i 

Plaster products 2 

FOOD PRODUCTS, including bakeries, 

confectionery and dairy products. .139 

ARTIFICIAL ICE 15 

MALT LIQUORS 3 

BOTTLNG AND SOFT DRINKS 3 

SUGAR REFINING i 

ANIMAL PRODUCTS not incl'dg fertilizers 4 
LEATHER AND LEATHER GOODS.. 37 

Shoes II 

Harness and Saddles 17 

Other leather goods 9 

RUBBER INDUSTRY 10 

PEARL BUTTON INDUSTRY 14 

CHEMICALS, DYES, DRUGS AND 

PREPARATIONS 35 

PRINTING AND PUBLISHING zy 

OIL REFINING AND OILS 9 

PAINT, VARNISH AND INK 21 

CIGAR MANUFACTURE 39 

LAUNDRIES (STEAM) 11 

TOY MANUFACTURE 5 

CLAY PRODUCTS 5 

GLASS AND GLASS PRODUCTS 11 

MOTION PICTURES 10 

CELLULOID AND SHELL 2 

BAG AND CARPET CLEANING 4 

TOTAL 1,169 



No. Em- 


Annual 


Value of 


ployees 


Pay Roll 


Annual Prod. 


1,818 


1,625,000 


108,200,000 


24,405 


$19,906,200 


$177,761,000 


587 


546,600 


1,421,000 


3,145 


2,507,300 


8,100,000 


5,S6i 


4,392,200 


10,917,000 


1,373 


1,289,700 


4,348,000 


2,277 


1,262,000 


5,822,000 


85 


36,600 


79,000 


6,312 


5,481,800 


37,448,000 


70 


91,000 


150,000 


583 


483,000 


1,275,000 


1,573 


1,380,000 




921 


811,000 




7,762 


6,186,200 


20,893,000 


3,626 


2,225,000 


8,798,000 


1,539 


1,160,800 


3,323,000 


282 


222,500 


790,000 


2,026 


2,073,500 


5,975,000 


109 


177,400 


505,000 


180 


90,000 


190,000 


2,681 


1,778,200 


5,225,000 


2,327 


1,508,600 


4,420,000 


no 


62,500 


310,000 


184 


162,100 


395,000 


60 


45,000 


100,000 


1,147 


638,100 


1,724,000 


5,209 


2,646,900 


3,349,500 


32,2 


184,300 


1,379,000 


2,009 


2,124,200 


7,735,000 


1,699 


1,872,200 


6,597,000 


207 


174,000 


863,000 


63 


46,000 


150,000 


25 


24,000 


100,000 


15 


8,000 


25,000 


3,146 


1,864,800 


13,477,000 


233 


168,900 


741,000 


26s 


275,600 


1,100,000 


31 


15,000 


40,000 


630 


520,000 


42,000,000 


148 - 


28,200 


685,000 


3,261 


1,486,200 


2,574,500 


2,728 


1,094,900 


1,813,000 


65 


41,000 


76,500 


468 


351,300 


685,000 


2,584 


1,667,000 


2,874,000 


573 


338,100 


1,329,000 


2,087 


1,693,300 


11,699,000 


1,423 


842,200 


3,016,000 


1,920 


1,723,000 


11,880,000 


688 


592,900 


6,368,000 


1,620 


980,000 


3,800,000 


243 


114,300 


234,000 


97 


60,000 


133,000 


263 


178,250 


506,000 


686 


512,000 


1,630,000 


156 


172,000 


645,000 


50 


30,200 


70,000 


31S 


195,000 


300,000 


63,966 


$46,921,050 


$323,198,000 



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Queens Borough has become the Motion Picture Center of the East. Here 
are two of the new studios. The $1,000,000 studio of the Famous-Players Lasky 
Corporation is now being completed. Ground will shortly be broken for the 
Selznick Studios. Other large motion picture studios are also to be erected. 




The United States Census of manufacturing for 1919, which is now being 
compiled, will not be ready for distribution until 1921 at the earliest. While no 
attempt will be made here to estimate in advance what the figures will be, it is 
certain that they will show the largest increase for any five year period in the 
history of Queens Borough. 



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INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT IN 1920 

Queens Borough today is without doubt developing more rapidly from an 
industrial standpoint than any other borough of New York City. It is also one 
of the fastest growing industrial communities in the United States. Prior to 
the war the fact that one new substantial industry established in Queens each 
week was considered a good record. During 1919 this record was doubled, for 
at least two new industries located each week in Queens during that year. In 
1920 and succeeding years a record of one new industry each day will not be 
considered remarkable when all the advantages that Queens Borough has to 
offer are understood. 

What are the reasons for this great industrial development ? It is the result 
of four main causes. 

1. New enterprises, constructing plants for the production of new articles, nat- 
urally seek Queens Borough as the most economic and efficient location. 

2. Manufacturers with their main plants in the Middle West desire to establish 
branch plants in the East to supply both the New York market and their 
foreign trade ; manufacturers whose present plants are unfavorably located 
with respect to transportation, housing, labor, raw materials ; and manufac- 
turers seeking branch factories more strategically located so as to remove 
competitive handicaps. 

3. Factories which have been operating in the more highly developed boroughs 
of New York, and finding it impossible to expand except at enormous cost 
because of the high price of land adjacent to their present establishments, 
seek new sites in Queens Borough where they can purchase sufficient land 
at low cost to provide for both their present needs and future expansion. 

4. Plants in Queens Borough, finding their business growing, either purchase 
new sites and erect new buildings or construct enlargements to their present 
factories. 

The principal reasons why manufacturing plants are leaving Manhattan, 
and even Brooklyn, to establish in Queens Borough, may be summed up as fol- 
lows : — 

1. High Rents. 

2. High cost of land makes expansion at present location too expensive. 

3. Congested condition of streets causes trucking difficulties with delays in 
shipping. 

4. Greater cost of rehandling shipments of raw materials and finished products 
as compared with loading and unloading direct from private switches obtain- 
able on the Long Island Railroad. 

5. Loss of time between factories and homes of employees. 



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NINETEEN REASONS THAT ATTRACT NEW 
INDUSTRIES TO QUEENS BOROUGH 

The borough of Oueens has so many advantages that it is rapidly becoming 
one of the greatest manufacturing centers in the United States. Some of the 
principal reasons which have resulted in attracting hundreds of new industries 
to establish manufacturing, assemblying, shipping and storage plants in the 
Borough are the following: — 

1. LOCATION . If a circle is drawn with Grand Central Station as its center, 
and with a radius of 10 miles, there will be a larger area of Queens Borough 
within that circle than of any other Borough. Oueens is much nearer to the 
business center of Manhattan than is any other Borough. In fact, the 
geographical center of New York City is Queens Borough. 

2. RAPID TRANSIT. The operation of the five new rapid transit extensions 
into Queens from Brooklyn and Manhattan by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit 
Company and the Interborough Rapid Transit Company places at the disposal 
of the residents of Queens Borough the entire comprehensive system of 
rapid transit in New York City for a single fare. 

3. MARKET. It is always an advantage for the manufacturer to have his 
factory located near a large market. Queens is part of the largest market in 
the world — ^the city of New York — the focal point for the transaction of 
business and the distribution of commodities for the United States. Twenty 
seven percent of the buying population of the United States is located within 
100 miles of New York City — a market of tremendous possibilities. Within 
a commuting radius of thirty miles, 7^4 percent of the population of the 
United States lives. Furthermore, the home consumption of manufactured 
goods of all kinds is enormous. Everything to eat, or to wear, or that can 
contribute to the pleasure, health or comfort of mankind has a ready sale 

and quick distribution in New York City and vicinity. 




New Home of the Remington Typewriter Co. in Flushing. Purchased in 
1920 from the Nathan Mfg. Co. 



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Where Spearmint Chewing Gum in made. The factory of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Co., 

in the Maspeth section of Queens. Twenty acres of ground 

have been acquired for future expansion. 

4. GOOD ROADS. To reahze the advantage of trucking facihties good roads 
are an absokite necessity. Queens has the best paved highways of any sec- 
tion of New York City. 

5. QUEENSBORO BRIDGE. Spanning the East River across Blackwell's 
Island — opened in 1909, gives a direct route for vehicles of all descriptions 
from 59th Street and Second Avenue (Manhattan) to Long Island City 
(Queens Borough). Thirty thousand vehicles have crossed this bridge in 
one day. 

6. LABOR SUPPLY. In every industrial center the labor supply is one of the 
most important features. In New York City there is a labor supply not be 
found in any other American City. Queens has available this unlimited sup- 
ply of labor from a population of over 7,500,000 within easy traveling dis- 
tance, ranging from unskilled labor to the highest skilled mechanics. 

7. HOUSING FACILITIES. The Borough of Queens ofi'ers advantages 
superior to any other section of Greater New York for the housing of em- 
ployees of factories. For those who prefer to live within walking distance 
of their work small houses and apartments in quiet locations can be obtained. 
Trolleys, rapid transit lines and electric railroads make available all parts of 
the City of New York, and even the adjoining suburbs in Nassau and West- 
chester Counties, for housing workingmen and executives. Electricity, gas 
and water are everywhere provided. Sewers are installed. The best schools, 
churches of all denominations, beaches, parks and theatres and all requisites 
for pleasure are here. 



96 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens ■ 

8. AVAILABLE SLFES. There is no section of New York where so much 
acreage is available for industrial development as in the Borough of Queens. 
There are 22.000 acres available for manufai^turing purposes. The manu- 
facturer who has a good location and is surrounded by favorable conditions 
has an advantage over his competitors. Numerous waterfront sites are to 
be had with a depth sufficient to accommodate vessels of large draught, at 
prices much lower than any other waterfront property in the city. Along 
the Connecting Railroad and the Pennsylvania — Long Island Railroad are 
thousands of acres where sidings may be had bringing cars to the factory 
door and saving all expense for carting. Other locations within easy hauling 
distance of both railroad and piers are to be had at attractive prices, varying 
according to location, but always far below in price the same class of property 
anywhere else in New York City. 

9. LOW COST OF LAND. The price of land is much lower than in Man- 
hattan and other Boroughs, and floor space with many facilities which Man- 
hattan cannot ofifer such as abundant light and air, direct tracking facilities, 
etc., can be had at very reasonable prices. 

10. RAILROAD FACILITIES. There are in Queens today over eighty miles 
of railroad, some of which is two, four and six tracked. This amount of 
railroad through the Borough gives an adequate opportunity for sidings 
direct to factory premises. 

11. FREIGHT RATES. "Metropolitan Freight Rates" apply to Queens just 
as thev do to Manhattan, and goods shipped into the Borough from more 
than 100 miles, or shipped out further than 100 miles get exactly the same 
freight rates that the same commodities shipped in or out of Manhattan 
receive. These New York rates apply as far as College Point, Flushing, 
Jamaica and Ozone Park. 

12. ELECTRICITY AND GAS. Electric power rates are very advantageous. 
They are as low as the rates in any city on the Atlantic seaboard, and com- 
pare favorably with companies in other parts of the United States which 
manufacture electric power by steam. Gas for power, illumination or heat- 
ing can be obtained at reasonable rates. 

13. WATERFRONT. The 200 miles of waterfront and 35 miles of docks and 
bulkheads on the East River, Newtown Creek, Flushing Bay, Flushing Creek, 
Jamaica Bay, and the Atlantic Ocean, indicates the tremendous amount of 
waterfront that Queens has available for shipping and for future develop- 
ment. 

14. CONNECTING RAILROAD. The New York Connecting Railroad, with 
its massive bridge over Hell Gate, connecting Queens Borough with the 
Bronx, and the Pennsylvania — Long Island Railroad system with the New 
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, gives an all rail route for freight 
traffic. 

15. FINANCIAL CENTER. As a financial center New York City is more 
than six times greater than any other city in the country, twenty-six percent 
of the banking power of the United States being centered in it, and ten per- 



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cent of the banking power of the world. Queens is a part of this great 
banking center, and has today 35 banking offices throughout the Borough, 
(nineteen State banks, seven National, four savings and five trust company 
offices) with resources aggregating $750,000,000. 

16. BARGE CANAL TERMINALS. Three terminals of the State Barge 
Canal are located in the Borough of Queens, as follows: 1st, on the East 
River, just north of the Queensboro Bridge, Long Island City; 2nd, on 
Hallet's Cove, East River, in the Astoria section of Long Island City; 3rd, 
Flushing Bay, just west of the mouth of Flushing Creek. These terminals 
place all of the advantages of the $150,000,000 deeper and wider State Barge 
Canal at the disposal of the shippers of Queens Borough, and materially 
reduce the cost of transportation of raw materials and manufactured 
products. 

17. QUEENSBORO TERMINAL. A branch of the Brooklyn Eastern Dis- 
trict Terminal Company is located on the East River, just south of the 
Queensboro Bridge. This Terminal receives and delivers freight each day 
for every transportation line in the United States except the Pennsylvania 
System, giving prompt and economical transportation and eliminating the 
necessity of carting to all the separate freight piers in Manhattan. 

18. FOREIGN TRADE. New York is the gateway through which 50 percent 
of the exports and imports of the United States pass. For the manufacturer 
who is interested in the systematic development of the export markets, the 
Queens Borough section of New York City furnishes the best location for his 
plant as it possesses direct shipping facilities and enables him to make an 
aggressive campaign in pushing the sales of his products in the world 
market. 

19. WELFARE OF EMPLOYEES. One of the greatest gains which can 
be made by removing a manufacturing establishment from the congested 
sections of New York City to the open spaces of Queens Borough is the 
improvement of factory conditions and its effect upon the personnel of the 
plant — physically, mentally and morally. Greater efficiency exists in a well 
lighted, well-ventilated, sanitary and modern manufacturing plant. 





National Sugar Refining Co., Long Island City. One of the Largest, Most Modern 
AND Efficient Plants in the World. Established 1897 in Queens Borough. 



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Steinway & Sons Piano 'Factory, Established 1876. 



BENEFITS DERIVED BY BUSINESS MEN OF QUEENS 
FROM NEW INDUSTRIAL ESTABLISHMENTS 

The establishment o£ a new factory in any section of the Borough of Queens 
radiates its influence to all other sections of the Borough and increases the busi- 
ness possibilities for every one. One new factory whether estabHshed in Long 
Island City, Flushing, College Point, Woodside, Jamaica or Glendale, or else- 
where in Oueens, bringing 10, 100 or 1,000 new employees into the Borough, 
adds new population and wealth to the entire community, creating a greater 
prosperity for all and benefitting: — 



1. 

2. 
3. 
4. 



6. 



9. 



The Manufacturer : By increasing the labor supply and guaranteeing its 
permanency. 

The Merchant: By increasing" the number of his customers. 
The Banker : By increasing the number of depositors. 
The Real Estate Developer and Broker -.J^y increasing the demand for land 
both for factory sites and for homes for executives and workingmen. 
The Transportation Companies'- By increasing the number of passengers 
carried. 

The Gas and Electric Companies: By increasing the number of con- 
sumers of power, light and heat. 

The Builder: — By increasing the demand for homes of all types to house 
the increased population. 

The Retailer: By increasing the number of families living in the Borough: 
with their increased purchasing power. 
The Professional Man : By increasing the number of his clients. 



New York City 



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RANK OF SEVENTEEN LEADING MANUFACTURING 
CITIES IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1914 

(From Official United States Census figures) 









Value of 


No. of 


Average Number 


City 


Rank 


Ma 


lufacttired Products 


Factories 


of Employees 


New York City 


I 




$2,292,831,693 


29,621 


585,279 


Chicago 


2 




1,483,498,411 


10,115 


313,710 


Philadelphia 


3 




784,499,633 


8,454 


251,286 


Detroit 


4 




400,347,912 


2,036 


99,603 


St. Louis 


S 




360,479,868 


2,787 


85,058 


Cleveland 


6 




352,418,052 


2,345 


103,317 


Boston 


7 




284,802,479 


3,138 


78,894 


Buffalo 


8 




247,516,476 


2,225 


54,416 


Pittsburg 


9 




246,694,018 


1,741 


69,620 


Milwaukee 


ID 




223,555,142 


1,728 


61,839 


Baltimore 


II 




215,171,530 


2,502 


73,769 


Cincinnati 


12 




210,860,386 


2,135 


59,861 


Newark 


13 




210,601,047 


2,275 


63,084 


Minneapolis 


14 




187,854,159 


1,349 


28,295 


QUEENS BOROUGH 






164,789,000 


975 


31,630 


Jersey City 


15 




164,528,608 


770 


31,021 


San Francisco 


i6 




162,299,79s 


2,334 


31,758 


Kansas City, Kan. 


17 




159,700,168 


2,201 


13,095 






NEW YORK CITY 












Value of 


No of 


Average Number 


City 


Rank 


Mo. 


lufactiired Products 


Factories 


of Employees 


Manhattan 






$1,519,143,429 


21,807 


385,901 


Brooklyn 






5x5,302,755 


6,096 


140,831 


QUEENS 






164,789,000 


975 


31,630 


Bronx 






58,708,792 


1,271 


19,387 


Richmond 






34,887,000 


192 


7,479 


Total 


$2,292,830,976 


30,341 


585,229 








Garford Motor Truck Co. 



Standard Steel Car Co. 



Two new automobile service stations now being erected on the Bridge Plaza, 
Long Island City. 



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NEW INDUSTRIES 



The following are a few of the larger and nationally known industrial con- 
cerns which have dther purchased property or erected plants in Queens Borough 
during the past year or two. 



NAME 

American Chicle Co. 

American Radiator Co. 

Anchor Cap & Closure Co. 

Art Ornamental Compan}^ 

Blickman, S. & Co. 

C. — H. Motors Corporation 

Cole-Duncan Boiler Works 

Connell}^ Iron Sponge & Governor Co. 

Egleston Brothers & Co. 

Eureka Rubber Company 

Fahnestock Electric Co 

Famous Players-Lasky Corporation 

Fruit Products Corp. 

G. M. Film Printing Corp. 

Garford Motor Truck Co. 

■Gehnrich Indirect Heat Oven Compan 

General Carbonic Company 

Johnson Coin Counting Machine Co. 

Karpen Brothers & Co. 

Latham Litho & Printing Co. 

Lauraine Magneto Company 

Liquid Carbonic Company 

Loft, Inc. 

McHugh Willow Furniture Co. 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 

Norma Company of America 

Palmolive Company 

Payet Silk Works 

Perfect Window Regulator Co. 

Piel Company, G. 

Pittsburg Plate Glass Company 

Pyroxloid Company 

Remington Typewriter Company 

Repetti, Inc. 

Sawyer Biscuit Company 

Sea Isand Thread Company 

Selznick Pictures Corporation 

Sheperd Company, C. E. 

Standard Steel Car Co. 

Tapley Company, J. F. ■ 

Tiffin Products Inc. 

Waite-Bartlett Mfg. Co. 

Waldes & Company 

Walworth Manufacturing Co. 

Wappler Electric Company 

White Company 

Wm. Wrigley Company 



LOCATION ARTICLE MANUFACTURED 



Long Island City 
Laurel Hill 
Long Island Citj'- 



Woo ;ide 

Long Island City 



Flushmg 

Long Island City 

(( a (t 

Whit Stone 

Long Island City 



Maspeth 



Chewing Gum 

Radiators 

Rubber Rings 

Celluloid Articles 

Metal Stampings 

Auto Trucks 

Boilers 

Iron Pipes 

Iron Works 

Rubber Goods 

Electric Supplies 

Motion Pictures 

Fruit Products 

Motion Picture films 

Motor Trucks 

Ovens 

Carbonic Gas 

Coin Wrappers 

Furniture 

Posters 

Magnetos 

Carbonic Gas 

Candy 

Furniture 

Printing Plant 

Ball Bearings 

Soap 

Silk Dyeing 
Window Regulators 

Auto Horns 

Glass 

Celluloid Articles 

Typewriters 

Candy 

Biscuits 

Thread 

Motion Pictures 

Bookbinding 

Automobiles 

Bookbinding 

Candy - 

X-Ray Apparatus 

Koh-I-Noor Fasteners 

Iron Pipes 

X-Ray Apparatus 

Motor Trucks 

Chewing Gum 



New York City 



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Astoria Mahogany Co. Est. 1876. 




Wm. DeMuth & Co., Richmond Hill, Manufacturers of Smoking Pipes 

AND Accessories. Est. 19D0. 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



-MADE IN QUEENS'' 



Acids 

AcoListicons 
Agate Ware 
Aircraft 
Airplanes 
Airplane Motor 

Heat Indicators 
Airplane Parts 
Airplane Propellers 
Aluminum Castings 
Angle Plates 
Aniline Colors 



Baby Carriages 

Bags & Bagging 

Ball Bearings 

Bank Fixtures 

Banners 

Barrels (Steel & Wooden) 

Bath Tubs 

Batteries 

Beds & Bedding 

Billiard Tables 

Biscuits 

Bisulphite of Soda 

Blank Books 

Blowers, Exhaust 



Cabinets 

Candy 

Cans 

Canvas Goods (Tents) 

Canvas Upper Rubber Sole 

Footwear 
Carbonic Acid Gas 
Carburetors 
Cardboard 

Carmel, Burnt Sugar Coloring 
Carpets 
Caskets 
Celluloid 
Cement 
Chains 

Dairy Supplies 

Davits 

Dental & Druggists' Rubber 

Goods 
Dental Instruments 
Diamond Saw Machinery 
Dictographs 
Dictophones 



"A" 
Antiseptics 
Architectural Bronze 
Architectural Iron Work 
Architectural Patterns 
Architectural Woodwork 
Artesian Well Drillers 
Artesian Well Machinery 
Art Goods 

Artificial Stone 
Auto Bodies 
Auto Horns 

"B" 
Boats 
Boilers 

Boiler Compound 
Book Binding 
Bottles 
Box Springs 
Boxes 
Braids 

Brass & Bronze Castings 
Brass Faucets 

Brass Locomotive Appliances 
Brassieres 
Brick (Fire) 
Bronze (Architectural) 

"C" 

Chemicals 

Chewing Gum 

Chicory 

Cigars 

Cleaning Machinery 

Clips 

Clothing 

Coffee 

Coin Wrappers 

Colors 

Colored Optical Glass 

Combs 

Commercial Auto Bodies 

Composition Flooring 

"D" 
Dies 

Disinfectants 
Disenfecting Appliances 
Display Fixtures & Forms 
Door Sash and Trim 
Dress Shields 
Drop Hammers 

"E" 



Auto Tires 
Auto Trucks 
Automobiles 
Automobile Motor 
Heat Indicators 
Auto. Parts & Accessories 
Automobile Specialties 

Automobile Equipment 
Auto Wheels 
Autopeds 
Awnings 



Bronze Ware 

Bowling Alleys 

Bronze Powders 

Brushes 

Buckets 

Buckles 

Buffing Machines 

Building Material 

Building Stone 

Builders Supplies 

Bungs 

Bushings 

Buttons 

Button Machinery 



Concrete 

Copper Smelting & Refining 

Copper Tanks, Vats & Coils 

Cordage 

Cornices 

Corsets 

Crackers 

Cranes & Hoisting Machinery 

Creamery Machinery 

Creosoting 

Crullers 
Cutlery 
Cut Outs 



Drugs & Preparations 

Dryers — Colors 

Dumbwaiters 

Dye Stuffs' 

Dyeing 

Dyewood Extracts 



Electric Machinery Appliances Electric Switchboards 
filectric Supplies Electricity 



Electric Polishing & Plating 
Emery Grinders 



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Fasteners 

Fat Melters 

Fertilizer 

Fibreloid 

Fire Extinguishers 

Fireproof Doors & Windows 

Gas (Acetylene) 
Gas (Illuminating) 
Gas Fixtures 
Gas Lighting Fixtures 

Hand Bags 
Hats 

Hardware 
Headwear 

Ice 

Ice Cream 

Illuminated Street Car Signs 

Industrial Cars 

Japans 

Kitchen Utensils 



Labeling Machines 

Laces and Embroideries 

Lacquers 

Lamps 

Laundry Equipment 



Fireworks 
Flashlights (Daylo) 
Flavoring Extracts 
Floors. (Cement) 
Florists' Supplies 

"G" 

Gases (Oxygen & Hydrogen) 
General Machine Work 
Glass 
Gloves 

"H" 
Heating Apparatus 
Hides 
Hoisting Buckets 

"I" 
Inks and Printing Inks 
Insecticides 
Iron Stairs 

"J" 

Jewelers' Boxes 



"K" 



Knit Goods 



"L" 

Leather Dressing 
Leggings 
Life Boats 
Life Rafts 



Folding Boxes 

Forgings 

Fruit Products 

Fur Dressing & Dyeing 

Furniture 



Glue 

.Granite Monuments 

Greases 



Household Supplies 
Hospital Supplies 
Hydroplanes 



Iron Work 
Ivory Goods 
Instruments 



Lighting Fixtures 

Liquid Soap 

Lithographing 

Loose Leaf (Binding Devices) 






BalUnger & Perrot, Architects and JLiigineers. 
The New York Consolidated Card Co. The Tiffin Products, Inc. 



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"M" 



Macaroni 


Metalcrete (Liquid) 




Machinery Castings 


Metal Goods 


Motometers 


Machines (Special) 


Metal Specialties 


Motor Boats 


Magnetos 


Meters (Water) 


Motor Trucks 


Mahogany Veneers 


Metal Polishes 


Mirrors 


Malt 


Metals and ^letal Work 


Motion Pictures 


Marble Cutting 


Metholoid 


]Music Cabinets 


Matches 


Mill and Cabinet Work 


Musical Strings 


Mattresses 


Mill Work 


Mustard 


Medicines 


"N" 




Nickle Ware 


Novelties 

"0" 




Oil 


Organs 


Ovens 


Oil Stoves 


Ornamental Iron 
"P" 
Pearl Button Machinery 


Overalls 


Packing Boxes 


Pillows 


Paint 


Petroleum 


Pillow Cases 


Painters' Supplies 


Pharmaceuticals 


Pipes (Smoking) 


Paper Bags 


Phonographs 


Playing Cards 


Paper Novelties 


Pianoforte Materials 


Plumbers'* Supplies 


Paper Specialties 


Pianos 


Polishes 


Pattern Making 


Pickles 

"R" 


Printing Presses 


Radiators 


Ribbons 


Rubber Products 


Radium Dials 


Roofing 


Rubber Specialties 


Ratan and Wicker Ware 


Rope 

"S" 


Rubber Tires 


Safety Guards 


^Shoes 


Steel and Iron Work 


Salad Dressings 


Signs 


Steel Barrels 


Saws 


Silk 


Steel Plate Construction 


Scarfs 


Silk Finishing & Dyeing 


Stencil Machines 


Scouring Powder 


Silk Shoe Binding 


Stencil Oil Paper 


Screw jNIachine Products 


Silver Novelties 


Stone Cutting Machines 


Seats and Chair Seats 


Skates 


Store Fixtures 


Sheet Iron Work 


Skirts 


Structural Iron 


Sheet Metal 


Smelting 


Structural Steel 


Sheet Metalware 


Soap 


Sugar Refining 


Sheets 


Starch 


Surgical Instruments 


Ships 


Stationery 


Switches 


Shippers Supplies 


Steam Specialties 
"T" 




Tallow Products 


Thermometers 


Toys 


Tanks 


Tin Cans 


Train Indicators 


Telephone Booths 


Tobacco Pipes 


Transparencies 


Terra Cotta 


Toilet Preparations 


Twine 


Textiles 


Tools 

"U" 


T3^pewriters 


Undertakers' Supplies 


Underwear 

"V" 




Varnish 


Veneers (Mahogany, etc.) 


Ventilators 


Waterproofing 


Willow Furniture 


Woodwork (Interior and Ex- 


Waterproofing Compounds 


Window Screens 


terior) 


Welding Machines 


Window Regulators 


Wrapping Machines 


White Goods 


Woodenware 

"X" 

"Y" 




X-Ray Machines 




Yarn 







New York City 105 , 

FACTORIES 

The following list of Queens Borough factories is by no means complete. 
It includes only the larger and more important industrial establishments. There 
are hundreds of small plants with less than ten employees, which are classed as 
"factories"; such as bakeries; smaU print shops; garages, where automobile re- 
pairing is done ; and homes in which a few employees are engaged in needle 
trades. 

This list includes only such factories as 

(a) Own their own plants 

(b) Rent at least 2500 square feet of floor space, or 

(c) Employ 10 or more people 

The capital invested in manufacturing in a community, and not the number 
of factories, is the true index of its industrial strength. Furthermore, as this 

list is printed in April 1920, the names of the industrial establishments locating 
in Queens Borough from that time on cannot be included. 

BOLD FACE indicates Membership in Queensboro Cliamber of Commerce. 

(a) Property purchased, factory not completed. 

Number of Year 

Employees Established 

Company and Address Articles Manufactured April, 1920 in Queens 

A 

Acme Reed Furniture Co., Woodside Furniture 12 1893 

ACORN SILK CO., L. I. City Broad silk 7s 1913 

Adler Veneer Seat Co., L. I. City Seats 8o 1910 

AEOLIAN COMPANY, L. I. City Pianos, victrolas 117 1915 

AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL CO., ^^ ,„^^ 

(PRESTON WORKS), Blissville Chemicals 100 1899 

American Apothecaries Co., L. I. City Druggists' supplies 32 1905 

AMERICAN BALSA CO., L. I. City Life boats, motor boats, life 

preservers 200 1910 

AMERICAN BLAU-GAS CORP., L. I. City Blau-gas, dri-gas 16 1917 

AMERICAN CHICLE CO., L. I. City Chewing gum, confectionery 450 1916 

AMERICAN CLIP CO., L. I. City Paper clips, etc 75 1903 

American Die & Tool Works, L. I. City Dies and tools (a) 1919 

AMERICAN DRUGGISTS SYNDICATE, L. I. City. Drugs and chemicals 900 1907 

AMERICAN EVER READY WORKS. L. I. City Flashlights (Daylo), storage 

and dry batteries 1700 1915 

American Fibre Chair Seat Corp., L. I. City Chair seats 75 .... 

AMERICAN HARD RUBBER CO., College Point... Hard rubber articles 1325 1834 

American Radiator Co., L. I. City Radiators (a) 1919 

ANCHOR CAP & CLOSURE CORP., L. I. City Caps for tumblers, mason jar 

rubber rings 400 1920 

ANDERSON. E. D., INC., L. I. City Automatic machinery 90 1915 

ANDREWS LEAD CO., L. I. City White lead 18 1920 

ANTHONY CO.. L. I. City Liquid fuel 65 1912 

ART ORNAMENT CO., L. I. City Toilet articles 50 1920 

Astoria Boat Works, L. I. City Boats 22 1913 

ASTORIA MAHOGANY CO., L. I. City Mahogany lumber and veneer. . . 400 1876 

ASTORIA LIGHT, HEAT & POWER CO.. L. I. 

City Illuminating gas 875 1906 

Astoria Pearl Button Co., L. I. City Pearl buttons 20 1890 

ASTORIA SILK WORKS, L. I. City Silk 232 1888 

ATLANTIC HYGIENIC ICE CO., Woodhaven Ice 10 1919 

ATLANTIC RUBBER MFG. CORP., College Point.. Rubber articles 230 1891 

ATLANTIC MACARONI CO.. L. I. City Macaroni 40 1904 

AUTO SALES CORPORATION, L. I. City Slot machines 100 1920 

B 

Barber Shoe Co.. Frank, L. I. City Shoes 51 1896 

Barker Sweet Mfg. Co., Jamaica Saws 20 1909 

Barthels Mfg. Co., Glendale Braids and laces 100 1903 

Bayer. Gardner Himes Co. L. I. City Hardware for builders 25 1913 

Bayview Ribbon Co.. Glendale Ribbons 50 1908 

BEACON FALLS RUBBER SHOE CO., College 

Point Shoes, rubber footwear 700 1916 

BELLON. INC.. AUGUST, Rockaway Beach Structural and ornamental iron 10 1895 

BLACK BEAR CO.. L. I. City Oils and factory supplies 10 1890 

Bielecky Bros. Co.. Woodside Willow and reed furniture 10 1916 

BLICKMAN. S.. L. I. City Sheet metal specialties 250 1920 

BOYCE-VEEDER CO., L. I. City Fire extinguishers 70 1919 

BRADBURY CO., F. L., L. I. City Crullers - 160 1913 

BRADLEY MFG. CO.. A. J., L. I. City Stencil papers 10 1911 



106 



Chainiber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



I r Number of 

' ' Employees 

' Company and Address Articles Manufactured April, 'l920 

BRADLEY & SON, WILLIAM, L. I. City Cut stone and marble 100- 

Brandes Mfg Co., Julius, College Point Silk 25 

BREWSTER & CO., L. I. City -.Automobiles 995 

BRIGGS, INC., STEPHEN. L. I. City Barrels 20 

BROCKWAY, FITZHUGH & STEWART, INC., 

Evergreen Labels and fibre shipping con- 
tainers 125 

BROOKLYN FOUNDRY CO., L. I. City Grey iron castings 150 

Brown Co., A. B., Winfield Window screens and weather 

strips 17 

BROWN & CO., GEORGE, L. I. City Stone cutting 150 

BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER CO., L. I. 

City Billiard tables, bowling alleys, 

phonographs, auto tires 100 

BRETT LITHOGRAPH CO., L. I. City Lithographing 170 

Bulls Eye Rubber Co., L. I. City Rubber heels 15 

Buhler, Edmund, L. I. City Sewer pipe 10 

c 

C-H MOTORS CORPORATION, L. I. City Automobile assembling 

Canister, W. L. & G. T., Queens, L. I Wagons 

CALMAN & CO., EMIL, L. I. City Paint and varnish 

CARBOLA CHEMICAL CO., L. I. City Disinfecting whitewash 

CARPENTER CO., JOHN R., Jamaica Sash, door and trim 

CASSIDY CO., INC., L. I. City Lighting fixtures 

GATING, WILLIAM B., Winfield Rope and cord 

CENTRAL SMELTING & REFINING CO.. L. I. 

City Smelting and refining 

Chase Roberts & Co., L. I. City Paint 

CHILTON PAINT CO., College Point Paint and varnish 

CLAUDEL CARBURETOR CO., INC., L. I. City ... Carburetors 

CLOCHESSY JOHN, Rockaway Beach Paper bags and folding boxes. . . 

CODEX ANTISEPTIC CO., L. I. City Antiseptics 

COLE-DUNCAN BOILER WORKS. L. I. City Boilers 

COLLEGE POINT BOAT CORP., College Point Boats 

Colodor Engineering Corporation, L. I. City Strainers for autos 

COLUMBIA PAPER BAG CO., L. I. City Paper bags 

COMFORT SANDAL CO., L. I. City Sandals and shoes 

COMMERCIAL RESEARCH CO., Flushing Metal etching, chemical and 

welding products 

Compound Specialty Co.. L. I. City Paint 

CONCORD CONSTRUCTION CO., Ridgewood. .... Ornamental iron work and forg- 

ings 

Concrete Steel Co.. L. I. City Reinforcing bars 

CONNELLY IRON SPONGE & GOVERNOR CO., 

L. I. City Iron pipe 

Cork & Zicha Marble Co., L. I. City Marble works 

Cornellist Textile Co., L. I. .City Plushings 

COURTADE JOS. & SONS, L. I. City Piano cases 

CUNNINGHAM, W. J Brass foundry 

CUNNINGHAM, THE CHRISTOPHER CO., L. I. 

City High pressure steam boilers. . . . 

D 

DEERY JOHN J. CO., INC.. L. I. City Marble sawing 

DEFENDER MFG. CO., L. I. City Sheets and pillow cases 

Delatour Beverage Corp., L. I. City Beverages 

DEMUTH, WM. & CO., Richmond Hill Tobacco pipes and smokers' arti- 
cles 

DE NOBILI CIGAR CO., L. I. City Cigars 

Detroit Pressed Steel Wheel Co., L. I. City Solid steel disks for automobile 

wheels 

Diamond Red Paint Co.. L. I. City Paints 

DICTOGRAPH PRODUCTS CORP. Jamaica Acousticons. dictographs 

Dillman Baking Co.. Inc., Brooklyn Hills Bakery products 

DOMESTIC SOAP MFG. CO.. L. I. City Soap 

Donaldson Roman Stone Co., Richmond Hill Structural stone 

Druckerman. L. & M.^ Woodhaven Embroideries 

Dukeshire Steel & Forge Co.. Maspeth Forgings 

DLTRKEE, E. R. & CO., Elmhurst Spices and food products 

DUVALIAN PRODUCTS CORP., L. I. City Leather specialty goods 

E 

ELANDES RIBBON CO., INC., Whitestone Silk ribbons 

Elcaya Facial Cream Co., L. I. City Facial creams 

ELIAS JOSEPH & CO., L. I. City Glass mirrors, etc 

ELMHURST ICE CO.. Elmhurst Ice 

EMPIRE ART METAL CO., College Point Hollow steel doors, interior trim 

EMPIRE TUBE & STEEL CORP.. College Point Steel tubing 

EMERSON PHONOGRAPH CO. INC., L. I. City. . .Phonograph records 

Empire City Iron Works. L. I. .City Ornamental iron 

Eppinger & Russell. L. I. City Creosoted lumber, piling and ties 

Evergreen Knitting Mills, Evergreen Knit goods 

EUREKA RUBBER CO., L. I. City Rubber products 

Expanded Metal Safety Guard Co., L. I. City Metal guards 



SO 
54 
46 
10 
125 
125 
60 

IS 
50 
30 
10 
60 
10 
20 
60 
10 
100 
90 

50 
10 

10 
(a) 

20 
14 
30 
10 
20 

65 



18 
200 

25 

1000 
700 

25 
10 

185 

115 
14 
40 

100 
20 

269 
45 



275 



Year 
Established 
in Queens 

1907 

1885 

1909 

1900 



1918 
1914 



1917 
1850 



1904 
1914 
1918 
1910 



1920 
1852 
1850 
1919 
1888 
1915 
1892 

1898 
1895 
1911 
1919 
1918 
1920 
1919 
1917 
1920 
1903 
1915 

1915 
1902 

1905 
1919 

1920 
1915 
1913 
1919 
1852 

1862 



1916 
1916 
1919 

1900 
1906 

1919 
1919 
1906 
1915 
1891 
1914 
1888 
1918 
1918 
1914 



1915 



125 


1915 


20 


1918 


400 


1913 


300 


1919 


400 


1920 


(*) 


1920 


25 


1888 


32 


1892 


25 


1916 


15 


1920 



20 


1916 


500 


1919 


15 


1915 


17 


1903 


35 


1914 


10 


1885 


20 


1914 


35 


1915 


14 


1920 


(*) 


1919 



New York City 107 

Ntunber of Year 

Employees Established 
Company and Address Articles Manufactured April, 1920 in Queens 



FAHNESTOCK ELECTRIC CO., L. I. City Spring binding posts, electrical 

supplies 

FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY CORP., L. I. City Motion pictures 

Fassler & Klein Iron Works, L. I. City Iron works 

Federal Brass & Bronze Co.. L. I. City Architectural brass and bronze. . 

Feigin, F. A., L. I. City Cabinet makers 

Fenner. Geo. L.. L. I. City Printing inks, etc 

FISHER, JOHN C. MFG. CO., L. I. City Metal specialties 

Franklin Brass Foundry, L. I. City Castings 

FRISCH TOILET MIRROR CO., L. I. City Toilet mirrors 

Fruit Products Corp., L. I. City Fruit products 

G ■ 

G. M. FILM PRINTING CO., L. I. City Film printing (*) 1919 

Gahagan, W. H., Arverne.. Shipbuilders ISO 1918 

Garford Motor Co., L. I. City Service station (*) 1920 

GARSIDE. A. & SONS, INC., L. I. City LShoes 300 1918 

GAUMONT MOTION PICTURE CO., Flushing Motion pictures 150 1912 

GEHNRICH INDIRECT HEAT OVEN CO., Flush- 
ing Ovens and oven equipment 100 1919 

GENERAL CARBONIC CO., L. I. City Carbonic gas 50 1919 

General Chemical Co.. Laurel Hill Chemicals 200 1900 

Gillies, James, L. I. City Stone yard 10 1852 

GLEASON-TIEBOUT GLASS CO., Maspeth Glass 250 1903 

GOLDBERG & DAVIDSON,- L. I. City Buttons 20 1920 

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., L. I. City Automobile tires 50 1913 

GOULD-MERSEREAU CO., L. I. City Drapery, carpet and cabinet 

hardware 140 1919 

Grady Mfg. Co., The, L. I. City Metal polish 20 1914 

Gray, C. M. Marble & Slate Co., L. I. City Marble cutting 12 1908 

GREENPOINT-SOUTHERN CO.. L. I. City Mattresses, box springs, pillows 35 1919 

GREENPOINT FIRE BRICK CO., L, I. City Fire brick, boiler refractories... 40 1868 

GROSSMAN, MORGAN, L. I. City Shoes 50 1920 

H 

Haering & Matter, College Point Silk dyeing 35 1905 

HARMON COLOR WORKS, College Point Dry and pulp colors 20 1916 

HARROLDS MOTOR CAR CO., L. I. City Pierce-Arrow service station 350 1913 

HEATLESS DENTAL WHEEL CO., L. I. City Dental appliances 28 1916 

HELLMAN, RICHARD, INC., L. I. City Blue Ribbon mayonnaise 82 1915 

HELLMAN MOTOR CORP., L. I. City Ford automobiles (a) 1920 

Hill Button Works. L. I. City . .Buttons 100 1920 

Hill Laundry Equipment Co., L. I. City Laundry equipment 10 1917 

Himoff Machine Co., L. I. City Machines 30 1916 

HOLLIDAY KEMP CO., INC., Woodside Dyes, aniline colors 25 1916 

HORN HOLLAND CO., L. I. City Paints and varnishes 40 1914 

HOUPERT MACHINE CO., L. I. City Machine shop 175 1918 

Howard Printing Co., L. I. City Printing 50 1920 

Hoskins, R. H. Shoe Co., L. I. City Shoes 75 1914 

HOWELL, FIELD & GODDARD, INC., L. I. City .. Fireproof doors and windows... 100 1912 

HUBER. JOSEPH. INC.. L. L City Auto bodies 25 1900 

HUGHES, WM, & CO., INC.. Glendale .Cotton waste 25 1919 

HUNTER ILLUMINATED CAR SIGN CO., Flush- •; 

ing Street car destination signs, 

sheet steel products 65 1910 

H. & N. Carburetor Co., L. I. City Carburetors 10 1916 



IMPERIAL METAL MFG. CORP., L. I. City Metal specialties 100 1913 

IMPERIAL PAINT CO., L. I. City Paint 48 1913 

Indian Refining Co.. L. I. City Oils 26 1914 

INTERNATIONAL MOTOR CO., L. L City Automobiles 7^ 1919 

INTERNATIONAL OXYGEN CO.. College Point. . .Oxygen apparatus 14 i915 

International Silk Winding Co., L. I. City Silk winding W) 1920 

IRVING IRON WORKS Subway grating and saf steps. . . 200 .'.907 



J. M. SKIRT CO.. Woodside Skirts 75 1913 

Jackson, J. A., L. I. City Marble cutting 10 1905 

Jamaica Consumers' Ice Co., Jamaica Ice 30 1907 

JENSEN'S AUTO BODY WORKS. L. L City Auto bodies .' .' 14 1913 

JETER A. H. & CO., INC., L. I. City Metal specialties 18 1913 

JOHNSTON, H. S. DRUG CO., Elmhurst Drugs and chemicals 20 1898 

JOHNSON COIN COUNTING MACHINE CO., 

L. I. City • Coin wrapping machines 50 1919 

JUST, GEORGE A. CO. , L. I. City Fabricated iron and steel 200 1903 



108 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Number of Year 

Employees Established 
Company and Address Articles Mannfaetured April, 1920 in Queens 

K 

KARPEN, S. & BROS., L. I. City Upholstered furniture 350 1920 

KEINER WILLIAMS STAMPING CO., Richmond 

Hill Drawn and stamped sheet metal 300 1912 

KLEIN BROTHERS, L. I. CITY Japanese bamboo furniture 80 1902 

Klein. J., Iron Works, L. I. City Structural and ornamental iron 20 1911 

KLEINERT, I. B. RUBBER CO., College Point Rubber specialties (dress shields) 1200 1884 

KNICKERBOCKER ICE .CO., L. I. City Ice 100 1919 

KOZAK & McLOUGHLIN, L. I. City Shoes 300 1916 

KRAEMER BROS. CO.. College Point Sash, frames, doors, etc 35 1885 

L 

L. W. F. ENGINEERING CO., College Point Aeroplanes, cabinets 100 1916 

LA COUR IRON WORKS, L. I. City Structural steel. ornamental 

iron, cranes and hoists 80 1912 

LA FRANCE SOAP & PERFUME CO., L. I. City.. Soaps and perfumes 10 1920 

LALANCE & GROSJEAN MFG. CO., Woodhaven. .. Agate, nickel, steel ware 1700 1850 

Lang, Carl & Hoffman, L. I. City Silks 250 1915 

LATHAM LITHO & PRINTING CO., Woodside. . . . Posters, car cards (*) 1920 

LAURAINE MAGNETO CO., L. I. City Magnetos 60 1919 

Lewis & Vought Corp., L. I. City Airplanes 65 1917 

Lion Varnish Co.. Evergreen Varnish 10 1905 

Lissberger, Marks & Son, Inc.. L. I. City White lead 100 1907 

LOFT, INC., L. I. City Candy 1000 1915 

LONG ISLAND MFG. CO., College Point Hats 80 1919 

LONG ISLAND STAR PUB. CO., L. I. City Printing 65 1864 

LOOSE-WILES BISCUIT CO., L. I. City Sunshine biscuits, cakes and 

crackers 1400 1914 

M 

McHUGH, JOS. P. & SON, L. I. City Willow furniture 60 1919 

MALLINSON, H. R. & CO., INC.. L. I. City Silk 211 1885 

Manhattan Pearl Button Co.. L. I. City Pearl buttons 14 1896 

H^SIIH;J^?^-^0*^JE CO., L. I. City Metal beds and couches 175 1917 

MANHATTAN SILK CO., College Point Silk 200 1890 

MATHESON LEAD CO., L. I. City White lead, oxides 55 1890 

^JAYER, C. B CO., L. L City Interior woodwork 30 1919 

^r"^^^?? ^.^^^^^NSTEIN, L. I. City Varnishes, japans, enamels 50 1865 

M?,^^;ell Motor Car Co., L. I. City Service station 10 1920 

^i|;5^ILL BROTHERS, INC., Maspeth Drop forgings, hammers, etc... 100 1906 

METAL STAMPING CO., L. I. City \uto accessories 200 1904 

METROPOLITAN ELEC. MFG. CO.. L. I. Ci i- Sw tchboard° 264 910 

METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO., L. I. City ! PHnting and binding . . 300 1920 

METROPOLITAN TOBACCO CO. Jamaica. Cigars . . ... 45 1907 

MEURER STEEL BARREL CO., INC.. L. I. City Barrels 200 1912 

MEYERS WILLARDF. MACHINE CO., L. L Ci'^y . Mach nes' '.i ! 60 1880 

MM?^H ^r "^-V^^tS-^- ^- C''>' Silk 100 1915 

Miller Julius, L. I. City Sh^gs 250 1910 

Mirrohke Mfg. Co.. L. I. City Polishes .... 12 1917 

MODEL BRASSIERE CO., Elmhurst Clo hing V.'.V. . .'. 350 1917 

MOORE'S BAKERY, L. L City Bakine 58 1853 

MOTOMETER COMPANY, THE. INC.. L. I. City. . MotometerV ■::::::..." 450 1916 

MOTT, J. L. IRON WORKS, L. I. City Tron works etc . . 10 1919 

MULLEN & BUCKLEY, INC., Far Ro'^^kawa;: ! ! ! ! ! Wndow sWee^^^^ 

,^ ,, ^ „ screens 100 1889 

Mu ler Paper Goods Co., Ridgewood Paper goods 1902 

SnICiIaL ItUDIo'^ T^°T ^cT'"^ Storage^ batteries 75 1919 

i\J»UiNiCiPAl. SlUDIO, L. I. City Motion pictures (*) 1920 

N 

NATIONAL BRIDGE WORKS. L. I. City Structural steel 150 1904 

NATIONAL .CASKET CO., L. I. City Caskets, undertakers' supplies. . . 250 1915 

NATIONAL CHAIN CO.. College Point Chains ISO 1915 

NATIONAL ENAMELING & STAMPING CO., 

Laurel Hill Enamel ware 800 1897 

National Indicator Co., L. I. City Train indicators 28 1912 

NATIONAL LABELING MACHINE CO., L.I. City. Labels IS 1916 

NATIONAL SUGAR REFINING CO. OF N. J., 

L- I- City Sugar 850 1897 

NATIONAL VARNISH CO., L. I. City Varnish 50 1908 

Needham. A. W. Machine Co., L. I. City LLMachines 15 1902 

NEPTUNE METER CO., L. I. City Water, gasoline and oil meters. . 750 1892 

NEW AMSTERDAM GAS CO., L. I. City Illurriinating gas 600 

NEW YORK ARCHITECTURAL TERRA COTTA 

CO.. L. I. City Terra cotta 200 1886 

NEW YORK CONSOLIDATED CARD CO., L. I. 

City Playing cards 450 1915 

NEW YORK & QUEENS ELECTRIC LIGHT & 

POWER CO., L. I. City Electricity 857 1901 

NEW YORK & QUEENS GAS CO.. Flushing Illuminating gas 100 1854 

NIAGARA KNITTING MILLS CORP., L. I. City . .Bathing suits 15 1920 

NICHOLS COPPER CO., Laurel Hill Copper refining 1045 1873 

NORMA COMPANY OF AMERICA, THE, L. I. 

City Precision ball bearings 350 1919 

NORMAN-SETON, INC., Winfield Metal doors and fireproofing. ... 84 1910 



New York City 109 

Number of Year 

Employees Established 
Company and Address Articles Manufactured April, 1920 in Queens 

o 

OAKES MFG. CO., L. I. City Dyewood extracts 130 1883 

■Oakland Motor Car Co., L. I. City Service station 80 1919 

OLD RELIABLE MOTOR TRUCK CORP., L. I. 

City ■ Motor trucks 100 1918 

Operaphone Mfg. Co., L. I. City Phonograph records 37 1913 

ORGANIC SALT & ACID CO., INC.. L. I. City Salicylates and pharmaceuticals SO 1917 

ORESENIGO CO., THE, INC., L. I. City Furniture 300 1915 

P 

PACKARD MOTOR CAR CO. OF N. Y., L. I. City .Automobile service station 600 1909 

PARAGON PLASTER CO., Jamaica Plaster 25 1908 

PARTRIDGE, E. S. CO., L. I. City Service station (Owen Magnetic 

Biddle, Liberty 55, Lex autos) 55 1919 

Pathescope Co. of America, The, L. I. City Motion picture machines and 

films 18 1916 

PATTERSON SARGENT CO., L. I. City Paints and varnishes SO 1919 

PAYET SILK DYEING CORP., L. I. City Silk dyeing 4S 1920 

Peerless Glass Co.. L. I. City Glass bottles 250 1900 

PELLETIER, NAPOLEON, Maspeth Tin cans 30 1900 

Perfection Doll Co., L. I. City Character dolls 38 1915 

PERFECT WINDOW REGULATOR CO., L. I. 

City Auto window regulators 170 1920 

PIEL, G. CO., INC., L. I. City Automobile horns 125 1911 

PIROXLOID PRODUCTS CORP., L. I. City Celluloid articles 15« ' 1919 

Pisani Bros., L. I. City Marble cutting 10 1904 

PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS CO., L. I. City Glass 150 1919 

POLACHEK BRONZE & IRON CO., L. I. City Bronze and iron works 100 1912 

PRATT & LAMBERT CO.. L. I. City Paints and varnishes 50 1850 

PREMIER METAL ETCHING UO.. L. I. City Name plates, dials, castings 125 1917 

PRESSED & WELDED STEEL PRODUCTS CO., 

INC., L. I. City Pressed and welded sheet steel 

products 75 1913 

PROPPER SILK HOSIERY CO., L. I. City Silk hosiery 26 1919 



Q 



■QUEENSBORO BRASS & BRONZE FOUNDRY, 

L. I. City Brass and bronze 14 1914 

■Queens Pattern Works, Astoria Patterns 15 1914 

QUEENS BOROUGH GAS & ELECTRIC CO., Far 

Rockaway Electricity and gas 200 1902 

•Queensboro Tool & Die Co., L. I. City Dies and tools 12 1916 

QUEZAL ART GLASS DECORATING CO., Mas- 
peth Optical glass 40 1902 

■QUIGLEY FURNACE SPECIALTY CO., Jamaica. .Furnace material and appliances 10 1916 

R 

R. & L. BALLBEARING CO., L. I. City Ball bearings 10 1920 

RAINIER MOTOR CORP., Flushing Motor trucks 200 1916 

RAVENSWOOD PAPER MILL CO., L. I. City Boxboard and lining 90 1905 

RECKNAGEL. A., INC., L. I. City Hardware, factory and contract- 
ors' supplies 10 1890 

REED, A. L. CO., Richmond Hill Leather goods 175 1902 

HEICHARD-COULSTON, INC., L. I. City Dry paint 20 1906 

HEICHEL, KURT. INC., Ozone Park Fabric gloves 20 1917 

Itemington Typewriter Co., Flushing Typewriters 750 1920 

Renaissance Corset Co., Flushing Corsets 40 1919 

REPUBLIC AUTO PARTS CO., L. I. City .Auto accessories 

REX PAINT CORP., L. I. City Paint 

Rhodes, R. W. & Co.. L. I. City Rubber brushes, etc 50 1891 

Richey, Brown & Donald, Maspeth Iron work 200 1895 

REPETTI, INC., L. I. City Candy . . , 285 1920 

Richmond Hill Foundry, Richmond Hill Soft iron castings 30 1906 

ROLLS-ROYCE, LTD., L. I. City Service station 50 1913 

Tiogers-Peet Co., Maspeth Clothes 175 1919 

RONZONI MACARONI CO., INC., L. I. City Macaroni 50 1919 

liOSENWASSER BROS., L. I. City Shoes and leggings 1800 1913 

RUSSELL FOUNDRY & MACHINE CO.. L. I. 

City Castings 100 1870 

s 

■SAWYER BISCUIT CO., L. I. City Biscuits (*) 1919 

SCHIRMER, G.. INC., L. I. City Music publishers 195 1915 

Schults Baking Co., Jamaica Baking 150 1911 

SCHWANDA & SON, B., Winfield Pearl buttons 95 1902 

Sea Island Thread Co., Whitestone Thread ... 1920 

Scriven, J. A. & Co.. L. I. City Knit underwear 11 1916 

SELF CLASP ENVELOPE CO., L. I. City Envelopes 60 1920 

SELZNICK PICTURES CORP., L. I. City Motion pictures (*) 1919 

SEXAUER & LEMKE. INC., L. I. City Structural steel and iron 75 1900 

SHEPHERD, C. E. CO., L. I. City Book binders 200 1919 

Shore Instrument Mfg. Co., Jamaica Scientific testing instruments... 55 1920 

SHOREHAM NOVELTY CO., Winfield Novelties (celluloid) 100 1917 



110 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Number of Year 

Employees Established 
Company and Address Articles Manufactured April, 1920 in Queens 

SHUTTLEWORTH, EDWIN CO., L. I. City Cut stone, marble 50 1906 

SIMMONS, JOHN CO., L. I. City Pipe iron fittings, etc SO 1918 

Smith & Andrews. L. I. City. Clothes ••••••• 32 1920 

SMITH, EDWARD & CO., L. I. City Varnish and colors 1827 

SMITH, PETER H.. L. I. City Ladies underwear 20 1920 

SOHMER PIANO CO., L. I. City. Pianos 138 1886 

SORENSEN, C. M. .CO., INC., L. I. City Surgical apparatus (*) 1920 

SPEAR & CO., Woodhaven Caps and hats SO 1910 

Stacey Canadian Skate Co., L. I. City . . ^.'^ft" • ; 30 1920 

STANDARD OIL CO. OF N. Y., L. I. City Oil refining 1000 1885 

STANDARD STEEL CAR CO.. L. I. City ..Service station 30 1920 

STAR RIBBON CO.. L. I. City Ribbons . . ., 100 1906 

STAR SILK WORKS, L. L City Silk 14 1919 

STAUNCHWOOD SHOPS, Flushing Toys 10 1919 

STEIN-DAVIES CO., L. I. City Starch products. 35 1904 

STEINER MFG. CO.. L. I. City Hydrometer outfits for autos. . . 20 1919 

STEINWAY & SONS. L. I. City Pianos . 969 1876 

STREBEL & SON, CHAS.. Ridgewood Structural steel and iron 25 1908 

STUEBNER IRON WORKS. L. I. City Iron 125 1918 

SUPREME PICTURES, INC., Flushing Motion pictures li 1919 

SWEENEY & GRAY CO., L. I. City .\rtesian well machinery 25 1893 

T 

TAPLEY, J. F. CO.. L. I. City Bookbinding 264 1920 

TECHNOLA PIANO CO.. L. I. City Vocalions (talking machines)... 245 1913 

TEEPE J CHAS., INC., L. I. City \\'oodenware, tables, furniture.. 52 1916 

TEXAS* CO.. L. I. City Oil 42 1915 

Thermokettle Co., L. I. City Coppersmiths 10 1917 

THIBAUT-WALKER CO.. L. I. City Varnishes, japans, dryers 32 1908 

Third Ward Ice Co., Flushing Ice 12 1907 

THOMSON, JOHN, PRESS CO., L. I. City Machinery 145 1902 

Tiffany Furnaces. Corona Tiffany glass 40 1893 

TIFFANY STUDIOS. Corona. . ,Bronze castings 155 1904 

TIFFIN PRODUCTS. INC.. L. I. City Candy 450 1919 

TOCH BROTHERS, L.I. City Paint, varnish, chemicals 95 1903 

TOCK SCREW MACHINE PRODUCTS CORP., 

L I. City Screw machine products 100 1917 ■ 

TRAITEL MARBLE CO., THE, L. I. City Marble, mosaic tile 87 1904 

TRANSPORT SERVICE, INC., L. I. City Electric trucks 62 1919 

Trilsch, Oscar Co., Whitestone Jewelry cases, paper boxes 100 1906 

Truscon Steel Co., L. I. City ...Steel 20 1918 

u 

UNITED BUTTON CO.. Maspeth Buttons 250 1918 

Universal Electric Welding Co., L. I. City Electric welding 12 1915 

V 

V. & O. Press Co., The. L. I. City Presses, dies, sheet metal ma- 
chinery 125 

Valvoline Oil Works, Maspeth Oils 

VAN BRUNT, WM. C, INC., L. I. City Structural steel and ornamental 

iron work 

VAN IDERSTINE CO.. Laurel Hill T^at rendering 

Vantine. A. A. Co., L. I. City Perfume 

Victor Baking Co. Jamaica Baking 

VOSKA FOELSCH & SIDLO., L. I. City Interior marble 

Vogt, Walter J. & Co., Glendale Novelties and trimmings 

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Wai*e & Bartlett L. I. City X-Ray apparatus 30 1920 

WALDES & CO., L. I. City Snap fasteners and small metal 

parts 66 1919 

WALTERS PIANO CO. L. I. City Pianos 65 1914 

Walker Vehicle Co.. L. I. City Automobile trucks 34 , 1918 

WAPPLER ELECTRIC CO., L. I. City X-Rav apparatus 275 1919 

WARD. :MARCUS. INC., L. I. City Writing paper, tablets 175 1917 

WEISBERG-BAER CO., THE, L. I. City Interior woodwork 150 1905 

WELDRITE CO. INC.. L. I. City Welding and machine work 10 1915 

WEST DISINFECTING CO., L. I. City Disinfectants and appliances 132 1901 

WHITE CO.. L. I. City Motor truck service station 500 1919 

WHITE A. J., LTD. Jamaica Pharmaceuticals 

WICKE, WM., RIBBON CO.. Glendale Narrow ribbons 200 1898 

Wild, Joseph & Co.. L. I. City Carpets 100 1885 

Willie, John. Astoria Knit goods ' 25 1916 

WILLEY, C. A.. CO.. L. I. City Varnish and paint 100 1890 

WILLIAMSON. D. D. & CO. L. I. City Drugs and chemicals 1875 

WILSON PRINTING INK CO , W. D., L. I. City Ink 18 1881 

Wissmach Glass Co.. Paul. L. I. City Glass 10 1916 

WRIGLEY, WM., JR., CO., Maspeth Chewing gum 274 1919 

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RESIDENTIAL ADVANTAGES 

EW YORK CITY is faced in the Spring of 1920 with the most 
serious shortage of housing facihties in its history. For the 
first time in years the city is underbuilt. The stoppage of 
building construction during the war, the increased cost of 
materials, labor and transportation have all combined to bring 
about a condition which can only be remedied by the construc- 
tion of thousands of new homes of every description to house the present as 
well as the future population of the city. 

The loo-ical area for the construction of these new homes is in the Borough 
of Queens. Its many attractive residential communities, served by both the new 
rapid transit extensions and the Long Island Railroad, are nearer to the business 
center of Manhattan than a large proportion of the residential communities of 
either Brooklyn or the Bronx. 

Queens Borough possesses the unusual advantage of having within its bor- 
ders thousands of acres of undeveloped land only a short distance from the 
business and population centers of the city. A circle with a 10 mile radius, 
drawn from Grand Central Station in Manhattan as its center, will include 54 
square miles of Queens Borough as compared with 50^ square miles of Brooklyn, 
24 square miles of the Bronx and -20 square miles of Manhattan. 

The close proximity of this great undeveloped territory to the business cen- 
ters of New York, coupled with the excellent new rapid transit service, now 
available for a single fare to all parts of the city, gives Queens potentialities for 
immediate housing development, unequalled by any other borough. 

Moreover, as the cost of this land today, per lot or per acre, is so much less 
than any other property in the city with equal transportation advantages, it is 
evident that the increased cost of building construction can, to a large extent, 
be offset by the lower cost of land in Queens Borough. 

Those who are familiar with the vast area of Queens Borough, its great 
industrial development of the past ten years, its geographical relation to the 
adjacent boroughs, its new bridges, tunnels, electric railroads, and its many 
attractions and advantages from a residential standpoint, look forward 'to the 
construction of thousands of apartment houses, detached dwellings and multiple 
family homes in every section of the borough during the next ten years. Queens 
Borough offers today to the home seeker, the builder and the investor, oppor- 
tunities far superior to those offered by any other section of New York. 

One object of this publication is to impress upon anyone who has not as 
yet become familiar with the transformation which has taken place in Queens 
during the past ten years, that its many new rapid transit lines have now made 
the Borough a real integral part of New York City. 

The territory adjoining the East River, where industrial and commercial 
establishments are so rapidly being built and which is served by every rapid 
transit line of the city, is the most convenient location for housing those who are 
employed in the industrial establishments in Long Island City, and those who are 
living today in the congested sections of Manhattan. 



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Moonlight Across the Bay 

Beginning at Woodside and extending eastward to the City Line at Little 
Neck and southward to Jamaica are many high-class residential sections. Still 
further south is the immense area stretching to Jamaica Bay accessible to all 
by the rapid transit and electric railroads from Brooklyn and Manhattan. Across 
Jamaica Bay is the 10 mile long Rockaway Peninsula fronting on the Atlantic 
Ocean, until recently considered too distant in point of time for all year residence, 
but now being built up with attractive homes of permanent residents, who can 
reach their offices in the business centers quicker than most commuters from 
other suburban sections. 

When it is realized that the residents of a large proportion of Queens 
Borough can reach the business, shopping and theatrical centers in Manhattan in 
less time than it takes the residents of the Bronx and Brooklyn, and of even the 
Washington Heights section of Manhattan, the reasons for the marvelous growth 
of New York eastward into Queens will be appreciated. 

All of the advantages of a home in the country, combined with facilities for 
reaching office or workshop in a surprisingly short time, are still available within 
this biggest borough. 

To every one who loves the soil and grass, or who cherishes the trees and 
pure air, a new life is opened. Within 10 to 15 minutes after boarding a modern 
electric train at Pennsylvania Station, or rapid transit trains of the city's subway 
system, one finds himself looking out upon neat suburban homes and gardens, 
refreshing the eyes wearied by the city with its scenes of rush and bustle and its 
monotonous stretches of brick and stone. 







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Rolling Hills Make the Numerous Golf Courses in Queens Unusually Attractive 

With every natural advantage of diversified country; of cheap, rapid and 
comfortable transportation facilities ; ideal climate, attractive home surround- 
ings, and moderate priced land values ; its refined and cultured population ; its 
schools, churches and clubs, among the best in the country; the Borough of 
Queens offers to home seekers all that can be desired. Here one can find the 
joys of golf, fishing, boating, swimming and all other outdoor games. 

A ROUND CITY 

The most efficient city from a residential, industrial and social standpoint 
is the "round city," or one that has grown equally in all directions from the 
business center. For generations Manhattan Island has suffered all the evils of 
congested population due to its narrowness and to the barrier which the East 
River placed in the path of its inhabitants seeking homes in Queens Borough. 
The average density of population in Manhattan today is approximately 175 
persons per acre, while in Queens Borough, just across the East River, it is less 
than 7 persons per acre. With fifty thousand acres in Queens — an area three 
times as large as Manhattan — still undeveloped, there is every opportunity for 
the present and future population of the city to be housed comfortably in modern 
dwellings only a short ride from the business centers. 

The first step in the gradual rounding out of the city began with the con- 
struction of bridges and tunnels to Brooklyn. The complete rounding out of the 
city, however,' will take place during the next ten years as a result of the new 
bridges, tunnels and rapid transit railroads which now connect Queens with 
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Flushing High School 

The business center of Manhattan has gradually moved northward until 
today it is directly opposite Queens Borough. A generation ago the shopping 
center was located between 14th Street and 23rd Street. Then it moved to 
34th Street and from there to 42nd Street. Today huge office buildings are 
even being erected in the 57th Street zone. Its growth further north is limited 
by Central Park. The permanent business center of the city was fixed by the 
construction of Grand Central Station at 42nd Street and Park Avenuerand the 
Pennsylvania Station at 33rd Street and Seventh Avenue. Today, not only 
the big office buildings, the mammoth department stores and huge hotels, but 
the many theatres, restaurants, and loft buildings in this midtown zone, testify 
to the permanence of this all day, twenty-four hour, business center of New 
York. 

. . As the residential communities of Queens Borough have been put in such 
close touch with this business center by the many new transportation lines east- 
ward from 34th Street, 42nd Street and 59th Street, can there be any doubt that 
the largest home building development in New York City will take place in 
Queens Borough during the next ten years. 

Knowledge of these facts will quickly convince anyone that Queens is the 
most convenient home borough of New York City where millions of people will 
live in health and contentment, in modern dwellings amid beautiful surround- 
ings, with plenty of light and air, trees and gardens. 




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115 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

REMARKABLE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT HAS 
GIVEN IMPETUS TO RESIDENTIAL GROWTH 

One of the most important factors contributing to the present residential 
growth of Queens is the large number of modern, self-contained, huge industrial 
plants which have been erected throughout the borough during the past 10 years. 
Each new industry radiates its influence to every nook and corner of the bor- 
ough. Long Island City with its waterfront, its rail facilities and its nearness to 
the great retail centers of Manhattan has become the greatest manufacturing 
center in New York City. Every new manufacturing concern, establishing either 
in Long Island City or in other parts of the borough, requires the construction 
of new homes to house its employees. Tenements and multiple family build- 
ings are needed nearby for the unskilled wage earners. Detached dwellings 
and apartments, within convenient travelling distance by trolley, train or rapid 
transit, are needed for the higher paid skilled mechanics and operatives. For 
the executives of these same plants, Queens Borough offers every attraction 
for the establishment of their homes in its many beautiful residential com- 
munities. 

A gigantic pent-up metropolis, through the aid of bridges and tunnels, has 
burst its bonds and a deluge of trade and population is flowing eastward into 
Queens. The construction of immense industrial plants has drawn workers 
from all parts of the United States, who must be housed, fed and supplied with 
living necessities, thus creating a demand for new and more local forms of busi- 
ness. 

DEMAND FOR HOMES 

Statistics compiled by the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce of the 
number of employees in the factories in different sections of the borough, and 
the location of their residences, show that 50% of these employees live today 
outside of Queens Borough — in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Bronx or elsewhere. 

The object of this compilation was to show whether or not an attractive 
field existed for new home building. The figures demonstrate be3^ond any doubt 
the necessity for the greatest possible construction of homes of all types in all 
sections of the borough. 

A striking illustration of this fact is shown by the figures of just one in- 
dustry — the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, whose huge plant was completed and 
placed in operation in 1914. In March 1920 this company had 1400 employees, 
of which 800 lived in Queens Borough and 600 lived elsewhere. Practically 
every one of the employees who reside in other boroughs have indicated their 
desire and intention to live in Queens when sufficient housing facilities are pro- 
vided. 



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Homes like these in Flushing are being Built in Many Sections of Queens 



The present homes of the employees of this company are distributed as 

follows : — 

QUEENS BOROUGH 800 

Manhattan 353 

Brooklyn 197 

Bronx 14 

Elsewhere 36 



TOTAL 



1400 



The location of the homes of those who live in Queens Borough are as 
follows : 



Long Island City 470 Ridgewood . . 

Woodside 27 Flushing . . . . 

Winfield 22 College Point 

Corona 80 Whitestone . . 

Elmhurst 75 Bayside 



7 Woodhaven 3 

19 Richmond Hill 23 

4 Jamaica 53 

I Hollis 7 

3 Springfield 6 



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With this information in mind, as well as the fact that several new . in- 
dustries are establishing each week in Queens Borough, bringing hundreds of 
new employees into the Borough, it is evident that this is the most attractive 
field for builders in New York City. 

It has been estimated that for every dollar spent in the erection of new 
factories, four dollars must be spent for housing facilities. Although new 
factory construction has taken place in Queens during the past three years, 
1917 to 1919 inclusive, amounting to $19,000,000, which would require, on the 
foregoing basis, an expenditure of four times that amount, or $76,000,000 
for homes; there has been in that same time only $42,000,000 spent in Queens 
for the construction of additional housing facilities. This proves the necessity 
for an immediate expenditure of at least $34,000,000 for housing facilities 
for the employees of those factories, not taking into account the necessity of 
providing homes for the thousands who now work and live in Manhattan, but 
who have been attracted to Queens by the operation of new rapid transit lines. 
$100,000,000 could be spent for that purpose today and still the supply would 
not meet the present demand. 




The "Own-Your-Own-Home" Desire can be Fullfilled in the New 
Apartment Houses at Jackson Heights. 




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RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT 

VERY section of Queens Borough, from the East River to the 
Atlantic Ocean and from the Brooklyn Line to Nassau County, 
is today undergoing rapid transformation. Thousands of resi- 
dents, who previously lived in Manhattan and Brooklyn, have 
been attracted to Queens by the operation of its many new 
rapid transit lines, and other thousands are coming from all 

over the United States as a result of the establishment of large commercial and 

manufacturing enterprises. 

Figures compiled by John W. Moore, Superintendent of the Building 

Bureau of Queens Borough, show that home construction during the past ten 

years totaled $138,615,000. The figures for each year are as follows: — 

Year 
1910 
1911 
1912 
1913 
1914 

The fact that during the closing year of the past decade Queens took third 
place among the five boroughs of New York City in real estate transactions 
speaks for- itself. The total transactions for 1919 amounted to $289,240,000; 
an increase of 175% over the previous year. This total was made up as follows: 

1919 1918 

Sales $178,940,000 $74,300,000 

Mortgages 63,800,000 22,500,000 

New Buildings 46,500,000 8,860,000 



Value 


Year 


Value 


12,069,150 


1915 


$17,509,644 


17,710,344 


1916 


16,735,719 


14,413,915 


1917 


9,945,696 


14,324,215 


1918 


3,573,175 


14,067,365 


1919 


28,266,709 



TOTAL $289,240,000 $105,660,000 

Five years ago, where there was then a cabbage patch, now looms large 
apartment houses ; where potatoes were hoed until a year or two ago, are now 
located streets of attractive homes. On every block throughout the Borough 
the noise of the hammer and the music of the saw is heard, and yet, with all 
this building activity, the demand for homes is unprecedented. 

Queens Borough offers the tonic of ocean air, the sweep of breezes over 
sunlit fields, air untainted by smoke and soot^ the charm of nestled bays and the 
beauty of thousands of acres of natural park land. 

The character of the residential development taking place throughout Queens 
may be more conveniently treated in five zones, each representing one of the five 
Wards, or political sub-divisions, of the Borough. 



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Airplane view from Laurelton, looking towards Manhattan, showing the 
proximity of the vast residential areas of Queens Borough to the business and 
industrial centers of Manhattan and Brooklyn. 

This great undeveloped territory is only 10 to 20 miles from Pennsylvania 
Station. 



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121 




Here is where the future milHons of New York City's ever increasing popu- 
lation will be housed — with plenty of room for homes with gardens and only a 
short ride on the Long Island Railroad Electric trains, or the rapid transit lines 
of the city's subway and elevated system. 



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FIRST WARD 

The First Ward, or Long Island City, contains seven and one half square 
miles, or an area one-third as large as Manhattan Island. Bounded on the south 
by Newtown Creek, and on the west and north by the East River, it is most 
advantageously situated from a commercial standpoint. In no other equal area 
of New York has there been such a tremendous industrial development as that 
which has taken place in this section during the past ten years. Practically one- 
half of the factories of Queens Borough are located in Long Island City. 

It is the eastern terminus of the Queensboro Bridge, joining Manhattan at 
59th Street ; it is directly connected with 42nd Street by the Queensboro Subway, 
and with 59th Street by both the Second Avenue "L" and the new 60th Street 
tunnel. In this section are the large railroad terminals and shipping facilities 
of the Long Island Railroad. One-half of its area has been set aside for indus- 
trial development and the other half for business and residential development. 
It is of distinct urban character being as favorably situated as that section of 
Manhattan which lies directly across the East River. As it has superior railroad 
facilities, it may be safely predicted that Long Island City will constitute the 
future industrial center of New York City. 

The new rapid transit lines bring this section much nearer to the distributing 
agencies in the heart of Manhattan than either the Bush Terminal on the shores 
of South Brooklyn, the Staten Island waterfront, or that of Jersey City.. With 
twelve stations on the Queensboro Subway and the Astoria and Corona elevated 
extensions, this entire area will undoubtedly be solidly built up within the next 
ten years with tenements and multiple family homes, providing living accommo- 
dations for the thousands who are engaged in the manifold local business enter- 
prises, and the thousands who, working in Manhattan, can reach homes in this 
section in less time than it takes to travel to the Bronx or upper Manhattan. 




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Long Island City includes the former villages, or communities, known as 
Astoria, Steinway, Hunters Point, Dutch Kills, Ravenswood and Sunnyside. 

Building operations now under way, amounting to several million dollars, 
are but a "drop in the bucket" to what is needed here to house the 40,000 em- 
ployees of the local industries. 

The housing requirements of this section can only be met by the construc- 
tion of block after block of tenements and multiple family dwellings. The un- 
developed territory adjoining Queens Boulevard, served by the Corona "L," and 
only twelve minutes ride from Grand Central Station, should be built up with 
homes at once for it is the largest available undeveloped tract nearest the business 
"heart of the city. 




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SECOND WARD * 

The old town of Newtown, now known as the Second Ward, contains an 
area of 14,084 acres, or 22 square miles, which is exactly the same area as Man- 
liattan Island. It includes such residential communities as 
Blissville Forest Hills Maspeth 

Corona Glendale Middle Village 

Elmhurst Jackson Heights Ridgewood 

Evergreen Laurel Hill Woodside 

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The northern portion, served by the Corona "L", the North Shore Division 
of the Long Island Railroad, and the trolley lines of the New York & Queens 
County Railway Company (all of which make direct connections with midtown 
Manhattan), extends from Long Island City eastward to Flushing Bay and 
Flushing Creek. 

The central portion, served by the Main Line" of the Long Island Railroad 
and the Manhattan & Queens trolley line on Queens Boulevard, extends from 
Elmhurst southward through Forest Hills to Jamaica. 

The western portion, adjoining Brooklyn, is served by the elevated exten- 
sions and trolleys from that borough, the Montauk Division of the Long Island 
Railroad, and, to some extent, by the trolleys of the New York & Queens 
County Railway. 

The furthermost point in the Second Ward is no further distant from 
Herald Square than 191st Street in Manhattan, 176th Street in the Bronx, or the 
Bay Ridge section of Brooklyn. The entire area is sparsely settled and contains 
thousands of acres as yet untouched, but admirably adapted for the erection of 
homes. 

At Jackson Heights, Elmhurst, large modern apartments are now being 
erected, as well as attractive single family dwellings. In the Woodside, Elm- 
hurst and Corona sections hundreds of houses of the two family type, tenements 
and small cottages, suitable for the thrifty industrial workers are under con- 
struction. 

Jackson Heights, an apartment development of 350 acres of the Queens- 
boro Corporation, is one of the brightest spots during the past five years in the 
real estate horizon of Queens Borough. The progress made in the construction 
of Garden Apartment houses during that period is but a small start of what will 
be completed during the next five to ten years. Labor difficulties alone held 
back, during the past year, the construction of many additional apartment build- 
ings, which would have relieved to a large extent the present housing shortage. 



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Forest Hills is a high class suburban residential community, including the 
500 acre development of the Sage Foundation Homes Company, known as 
"Forest Hills Gardens" on the west side of the Long Island Railroad tracks ; and 
the 500 acre development of attractive detached dwellings of the Cord Meyer 
Development Company on the east side of the Long Island Railroad and ad- 
joining Queens Boulevard, where hundreds of beautiful homes have been erected 
during the past ten years for the executives of the industrial and financial insti- 
tutions of Queens Borough and for the executives whose offices are located in 
Manhattan. 

Ridgewood and Evergreen, adjoining the Brooklyn boundary line, are the 
most populous portions of the Borough, being built up with multiple family 
dwellings. A large proportion of those who live in these sections work in Brook- 
lyn. Several thousand 4, 6 and 8-family apartments have been built here during 
the past ten years. 

Maspeth. Laurel Hill and Blissville, adjacent to Newtown Creek, contain 
many large manufacturing establishments which require the construction of 
moderate priced homes to house the employees. 




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At Forest Hills is the West Side Tennis Club where the National Tennis 
Tournaments have been held each year; also, the unusually attractive Forest 
Hills Inn adjacent to the railroad station. 

THIRD WARD 

Bounded by Flushing Bay and the East River on the north, Nassau County 
on the east, Jamaica on the south, and Flushing. Creek on the west ; this section, 
with its area of 30 square miles, is almost as large as the Borough of the Bronx, 
and no further distant from the business center of Manhattan. 

It includes many attractive residential communities among which are 
Auburndale College Point Little Neck 

Bayside Douglaston Malba 

Beechhurst Flushing Murray Hill 

Broadway-Flushing Kissena Park Whitestone 



126 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Flushing is one of the oldest communities in the United States. There are 
standing today buildings erected 250 years ago. It is noted for its broad, well- 
paved streets lined with majestic shade trees. Many beautiful residences, some 
of which are of great historical interest, front upon the older streets. It is an 
important social and commercial center. It contains a number of important 
manufacturing establishments, the latest being the Remington Typewriter Com- 
pany. 

Kissena Park, adjoining the municipal park of that name containing 90 
acres of woodland and lake, has been built up with hundreds of attractive frame 
and stucco homes. 

College Point, next to Long Island City, is the most important industrial 
center in Queens Borough, including more than 20 factories, the oldest of which 
is the American Hard Rubber Company, established in 1854. A large proportion 
of the population is employed locally in these manufacturing plants. While it 
is well built up with detached dwellings, there is need for the construction of 
additional homes to house the growing population. It is served by the White- 
stone Branch of the Long Island Railroad and by the New York & Queens County 
trolley line. 

Malba, a restricted residential tract, fronts on Powell Cove, an identation 
of the East River where it broadens into Long Island Sound. It has its own 
golf course, bathing beach and yacht pier. Many distinctive homes at moderate 
cost are being erected here. 

Whitestone, also located on the East River, includes Beechhurst, a residen- 
tial development located on a high plateau overlooking Long Island Sound. 

Between Flushing and Bayside are Murray Hill, Bowne Park, Broadway- 
Flushing, and Auburndale, all of which are rapidly being developed with attrac- 
tive detached homes. At Broadway-Flushing 225 detached dwellings are now 
being erected on the property of the Rickert-Brown Company. 

Douglaston on Little Neck Bay, includes Douglaston Park and Douglas 
Manor, both of which are high class residential developments, the latter upon a 
peninsula jutting into the Bay. 

Little Neck Hills, another residential tract, located on the crest of a high 
hill adjoining Nassau County is being built up with moderate priced single 
family dwellings. 




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Type of Homes Under Construction in Second, Third and Fourth Wards 

FOURTH WARD 

Bounded by Brooklyn on the west, Nassau County on the east, Jamaica Bay 
on the south and for a distance of two miles on the north by a deeply wooded 
municipal park; this Ward contains 38 square miles, or an area nearly twice 
as large as the Borough of Manhattan. 

The Fourth Ward was originally the old township of Jamaica, which was 
settled in 1656. It includes the following communities : — 
Aqueduct Howard Beach Queens 

Brooklyn Manor Hillside Rosedale 

Bellaire Jamaica Richmond Hill 

Broad Channel Kew Gadens St. Albans 

Clarenceville Laurelton Springfield 

Dunton Morris Park South Ozone Park 

Hollis Ozone Park " Union Course 

Woodhaven 

Due to the concentration at Jamaica of practically all of the Long Island 
Railroad lines of traffic, this section has become one of the most important com- 
mercial, financial, and residential communities of Queens Borough. 

The residential development of the entire Fourth Ward has been due largely 
to the excellent transportation facilities which * connect it with Brooklyn, The 
Atlantic Avenue Division of the Long Island Railroad, on which both express 
and local trains operate, enables the residents to transfer conveniently to the 
subway trains of both the Interborough and B. R. T. in Brooklyn and reach 
the business centers of Manhattan in less than half an hour. 

The extension of the B. R. T. elevated system for a distance of four miles 
on Jamaica Avenue, and for a distance of two miles on Liberty Avenue, has given 
the majority of residents of this great residential territory rapid transit service 
for a single fare to the business centers of both Brooklvn and Manhattan. 



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Jamaica Avenue, extending from the Brooklyn Line at Cypress Hills to 
the .former village of Jamaica, is lined throughout its entire length with stores 
and tenements. Directly to the north is the highland — the backbone of Long 
Island upon Avhich are many beautiful residential developments. 

\A'oodhaven has been built up during the past ten years with thousands of 
small moderate priced detached dwellings. 

Richmond Hill, just east of Woodhaven, is'one of the most attractive resi- 
dential communities in the Borough. 

Kew Gardens, to the north of Richmond Hill and adjoining Forest Hills, 
has been artistically laid out, and from its hills one commands a view of Jamaica 
Bay and the Atlantic Ocean on the south, while on the north can be seen Flushing 
Bay, Long Island Sound and the tall buildings of Manhattan. This tract of 350 
acres is being developed with high class detached homes. 

Jamaica, although one of the earliest settlements in the United States, in- 
cludes manv new residential developments, among which are Jamaica-Hillcrest, 
comprising 200 acres just north of Hillside Avenue on the crest of the hills over- 
looking the town, and, further to the east, the beautiful residential tract known 
as Jamaica Estates, comprising 500 acres laid out in a deeply wooded tract. 

Hollis, Bellaire Park, Holliswood and Queens Village lie between Jamaica 
and the Nassau County line, and are all attractive residential communities in 
which are hundreds of detached frame and stucco dwellings. The erection of 
500 additional houses in Queens Village is now under way. 




Street Scene, Richmond Hill. 



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South of the Atlantic Avenue Division of the Long Island Railroad is that 
immense territory extending to Jamaica Bay, which includes Ozone Park, South 
Richmond Hill, Morris Park, Howard Beach, Springfield, St. Albans, and 
Laurelton. 

The operation of the Liberty Avenue "L" through this section has resulted 
in the construction of row after row and block after block of moderate priced 
homes which are sold to eager tenants even before the foundations are com- 
pleted. 

Howard Beach is a unique residential development fronting as it does on 
Jamaica Bay and on Shellbank Basin — a channel 300 feet wide with a depth of 
30 feet — extending inshore for a distance of a mile. Plundreds of bungalows, 
the homes of all year round residents, have been erected in this ideal residential 
tract during the past ten years. 

Laurelton, situated three miles south of Jamaica, is less than 14 miles from 
Pennsylvania Station. It comprises about 5,000 building lots, more than half 
of which have already been improved with sidewalks, curbing, water, gas and 
electricity, parked streets, beautiful trees and shrubbery. The type of homes now 
being built are single family dwellings of moderate cost. Plans have been pre- 
pared for the erection of a 200 room apartment hotel. 

Jamaica Park South, a residential development of 300 acres, is rapidly being 
built up with attractive detached homes of moderate cost. 

FIFTH WARD 

The Fifth Ward comprehends the Rockaway Peninsula, which extends from 
Far Rockaway (the eastern limit of New York City) westward along a sandy 
point nearly 10 miles long and approximately half a mile wide, separating 
Jamaica Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. 

On this peninsula are many seaside developments including Arverne, Belle 
Harbor, Edgemere, Far Rockaway, Holland, Hammels, Rockaway Beach and 
Seaside, all of which have been attractively laid out and have all of the con- 
veniences of the city in the way of street improvements and public service. 

The Rockaway Peninsula is not only the great summer resort and play- 
ground of New York City, but has become an all year residential section for 
hundreds who work in the business sections of the city. All of the built-up 
section is only 30 to 40 minutes from the business districts in Manhattan via the 
electric trains of the Long Island Rairoad. From 50 to 75 trains are run each 
way week days, and twice that number on Sundays during the summer months. 

In 1785 Tack-a-Pou-Sha, chief of the Rockaway tribe of Indians, and his 
sachems deeded what was known as Rockaway Neck to John Palmer, a New 
York merchant. At that time it was a stretch of waste beach and sand dunes, but 
today the sand dunes have been converted into stucco and mortar, and a veritable 
City-by-the-Sea has grown up, stretching from Belle Harbor on the west to 



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Nassau County on the east. With its boardwalk on the ocean, its broad 
macadamed streets, magnificient hotels and handsome residences and public 
parks, there is no more attractive section in New York City for either summer 
homes or all-year-round residences. 

Seaside, Holland and Hammels are filled with amusement resorts of many 
kinds, and their hotels and bathing pavilions cater to a floating population that 
reaches over 100,000 on a summer day. The hotels are filled every season. 
Arverne, Edgemere and Far Rockaway have not only many modern large hotels 
but thousands of private dwellings, cottages and boarding houses to accommo- 
date the vast throng of dwellers. Far Rockaway has a large permanent popu- 
lation and manv fine business blocks. 




South Street, Far Rockaway 

HOMES FOR ALL 



With such a variety of homes from which to choose, it would be strange 
indeed if any one failed to find an appropriate and convenient spot in which to 
locate a home in Queens Borough according to their desires. 

Homes are available not only for factory workers, but for men in every 
walk of life, — homes for the salaried man and the man in moderate circum- 
stances, as well as the fine estates and dwellings of the wealthy. Queens possesses 
unsurpassed attractions for all — for the man wdio washes his little garden patch, 
where his desire for farming can be gratified, or for homes in modern apartment 
buildings. 



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Thousands of These Bungalows Have Been Built at Rockaway Beach 

Queens has been designated as the "Home Borough of New York City" for 
it is estimated that over 50% of its homes are owned by the occupants. 

While Queens is essentially a borough of small homes, the cost of land 
being relatively cheap when compared with prices in Manhattan, Brooklyn and 
the Bronx, and while ten years ago the presence of apartment houses was hardly 
known, yet today hundreds of apartments, ranging from 4 to 10 rooms, can be 
found in all sections of the Borough. 

An interesting feature of the realty development of Queens has been the 
progress in certain areas of restricted property of the construction of single 
family dwellings ranging in cost from $10,000 to $50,000 each. The occupants, 
who are usually the owners, have come mainly from Manhattan, desiring the 
privacy of a home in a detached dwelling, and are able to secure better accommo- 
dations, for the same expenditure of money, or equal accommodations for less 
money. 




Homes at Laurelton 



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BUILDING DEVELOPEMENT 

It is only by comparing the building record of Queens Borough for 1919 
with that of other cities in the United States that one can realize the full signifi- 
cance of the wonderful development now taking place within its borders. 

Plans were filed during 1919 for new buildings, and additions to existing 
buildings, estimated to cost $50,000,000. Only three cities in the United States 
outside of New York City — Chicago, Philadephia and Detroit — exceeded Queens 
Borough in this respect for the past year. 

CITY PLANS 

Chicago 6590 

Detroit 21473 

Philadelphia 14142 

Queens Borough 8910 

This record was as great as that of the ten largest cities in the State of New 
Jersey — Jersey City, Newark, Atlantic City, Bayonne, Camden, Passaic, Pater- 
son, Elizabeth, Trenton and Hoboken. 

The following tables show the total number of new buildings for which 
plans have been filed in Queens Borough since its consolidation as a part of New 
York; and also the number, classification and value of the plans filed for 1919. 
Neither table includes the cost of alterations to existing buildings which would 
add to these totals several millions of dollars. In 1919, alone, plans were filed 
for 3,699 alterations estimated to cost $3,500,000. 



ESTIMATED VALUE 

$105,080,000 

82,995,000 

63,627,000 

46,022,000 



Year 

1898 

1899 

1900 

1901 

IQ02 

1903 

1904 

1905 
1906 
1907 
1908 
1909 
1910 
1911 
1912 

1913 
1914 
1915 
,1916 
*I9I7 
*i9i8 
1919 



1898 — 1919 Inclusive 
Number 

772 
1,011 

947 
1,450 
1,231 
1,321 
1,923 
3,251 
4,070 
3-929 
3,896 
4,758 
4,133 
5,374 
4,821 
4,646 
4,596 
5,756 
5,331 
3,611 
2,222 
8,910 



Value 

$2,538,216 

3.34^-269 

2,920,991 

4,710,492 

5,159,979 
4,829,929 

8,863,774 
12,827,960 
17,003,216 
15,994,259 
13,842,300 
10,407,921 
15,144,377 
22,212,258 
19,624,222 
17,521,235 
18,098,290 
20,316,392 
20,009,382 
11,635,253 

6,768,138 
46,022,607 



TOTAL 69,049 $262,719,853 

^Decrease due to the World War. 



Number 
5209 
551 
48 

62 



36 

7 

19 
108 

9 
3 

1 

41 

17 

2235 

99 

553 



8910 



1919 
Classification 

Frame Dwellings . 

Brick Dwellings 

Frame stores and Dwell- 
_ ings 

Brick Stores and Dwell- 
ings 

Frame Tenements 

Brick Dwellings 

Brick Stores and Tene- 
ments 

Theatres 

Factories 

Churches 

Schools 

Hotel 

Storage Warehouses . . . 

Office Buildings 

Garages 

Stables 

Other Frame Struc- 
ture 



Estimated 
Cost 

$19,987,479 
3,774,480 

270,050 

408,200 

10,000 

2,739,500- 

137,000 

. 1,010,200 

. 12,060,900 

184,000 

458,000 

500,000 

. 1,151,600 

353,900 

. 2,796,077 

6,750 

174,551 
$46,022,687 




Why Queens is called the "Borough of Homes." Type of Homes in Jamaica, Flushing, 
DouGLASTON, Kew Gardens, Forest Hills and other Sections of Queens Borough. 



134 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

While the value of new buildings constructed for 1919 was more than twice 
as great as the largest previous year, which was in 1911, when $22,212,258 in 
new buildings were erected; the comparison to be a fair one should include the 
increased cost of building construction in 1919 as compared with 1911. Never- 
theless it is eloquent testimony from the home builders, manufacturers and in- 
vestors as to their faith in Queens Borough when such an amount is spent in one 
year in the face of the high cost of building. 

The following table, compiled from data prepared each year by the Long 
Island Railroad, gives an estimate of the number of buildings constructed in the 
various sections of Queens Borough for the past ten years. These figures are 
simply the number of buildings, irrespective of their character, size or value : — 

Total 
1909-1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1909-1919 

Arverne 414 95 119 S6 53 317 1084 

Auburndale 6 6 — 5 — 10 27 

Bayside 560 74 37 12 2 33 718 

Broad Channel — 58 44 42 — — 144 

Broadway-Flushing & ]\Iurray Hill . . . 288 45 86 23 6 57 505 

Bnshwick Junction, IMaspeth & Middle 

Village 1259 377 15 _ _ _ 1651 

College Point 554 73 113 60 20 30 850 

Corona 2095 134 190 100 8 73 2600 

Douglaston 177 18 48 2 — 34 279 

Dunton 483, 55 55 31 15 17 662 

Edgemere 185 37 34 19 80 815 1160 — 

Elmhurst 912 332 132 208 228 402 2214 

Far Rockaway 429 42 34 9 14 8 536 

Flushing 1573 265 186 232 4 40 2300 

Forest Hills 456 88 102 58 3 58 765 

Fresh Pond — — — 4 9 68 81 

Hollis 365 44 160 10 21 loi 701 

Howard Beach 47 29 50 31 — 48 205 

Jamaica 3247 410 450 300 44 530 5081 

Kew Gardens 192 41 50 28 25 66 402 

Laurelton (Rosedale) 50 11 3 11 6 29 113 

Laurel Hill 45 6 9 12 — — 72 

Little Neck 57 22 19 10 3 25 136 

Long Island City 2290 504 313 212 269 200 3788 

Malba 60 9 9 6 — 39 123 

Morris Park 702 190 170 85 34 65 1246 

Queens — Bellaire 279 53 52 24 40 281 729 

Richmond Hill 1935 530 216 162 30 175 3048 

Ridgewood and Glendale 679 630 532 97 9 — I947 

Rockaway Beach 2461 326 451 425 i 267 3931 

St. Albans 89 14 19 10 8 34 174 

Springfield 266 38 40 50 — 75 469 

Whitestone 370 38 49 22 — 91 570 

Winfield 551 27 18 14 5 18 633 

Woodhaven (Sect.) 2189 4/6 455 391 55 830 4396 

Woodside 86 19 23 19 2 2 151 



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BANKS 

OMMUNITIES may be measured by various standards ; by pro- 
duction, by .consumption and by conservation of capital. A 
comparison is given herewith of the increase during a seven- 
year period, 1913-1920, in the resources and deposits of the 
banking institutions which serve the business and residential 
interests of Queens Borough. 
The most important recent development in the banking facilities of the Bor- 
ough has been the recognition on the part of the large iinancial institutions, whose 
main offices are downtown 
Manhattan, of the business 
opportunities which exist in 
New York's fastest grow- 
ing borough. 

Although both the 
Corn Exchange Bank and 
the Title Guarantee and 
Trust Company maintained 
several branches in Queens 
for many years past, three 





The Bank of the Manhattan Co., 
Jamaica. 

recent mergers have been effected 
which will still further increase the 
banking facilities of the borough. The 
Queens County Trust Company has 
been merged with the American Trust 
Company; The Bank of Long Island 
has been merged with one of New 
York's oldest financial institutions — 
The Bank of the Manhattan Com- 
pany ; and the Irving Trust Company, 
which maintains a branch in Long 
Island City, has become a part of 
The American Trust Co., Jamaica the New York National Irving Bank. 



136 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

There are today, thirty-six banking offices in Queens Borough. Of this 
number four are savings banks, four trust company banks, nine national banks 
and nineteen state banks. All of the savings banks, eight of the national banks 
and one state bank are distinctly Queens Borough financial institutions. This 
leaves twenty-three banks which are branches of trust companies, state banks 
and nationals banks whose main offices are in the heart of the financial district 
of Manhattan. 

The Bank of the Manhattan Company recently acquired a large plot at Ful- 
ton and Unioti Hall Streets, Jamaica, where a handsome new main office will be 
erected. The Long Island City Savings Bank has just completed the construction 
of one of the finest bank buildings in the borough, and the Title Guarantee and 
Trust Company is now erecting a new bank and office building at Bridge Plaza, 
Long Island City. 

The growth of the financial institutions serving Queens is perhaps the best 
index of the growth of the borough, not only in population and industry, but 
in commerce and building development ; in fact, in every phase of business pros- 
perity. 

SAVINGS BANKS 

Resources Deposits 

1920 1913 1920 1913 

Long Island City Savings $15,160,000 $7,194,000 $13,459,000 $6,603,000 

Jamaica Savings 9,127,000 5,264,000 8,403,000 4,960,000 

Queens County Savings (Flushing) 6,365,000 3,536,000 5,892,000 3,251,000 

College Point Savings 2,756,000 1,601,000 2,519,000 1,453,000 




The Bridge Plaza — The financial center of Long Island City. Here are 
the New York National Irving Bank, The American Trust Company and the 
Corn Exchange Bank (Plaza Branch). 



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STATE BANKS 

Resources Deposits 

1920 1913 1920 1913 

(a) Bank of the Manhattan Co. $253,359,900 $8,611,000 $200,200,700 $7,274,000 

(b) Corn Exchange Bank 211,679,000 82,021,000 184,767,000 73,087,000 

Hillside (Richmond Hill).. 1,900,000 627,100 1,800,000 490,500 

TRUST COMPANIES 

(c) American Trust :Co. ..;.. $12,285,000 $2,877,000 $10,817,000 $1,969,600 

(d) Title Guarantee & Trust Co. 56,175,000 45,636,000 35,380,000 28,160,000 

NATIONAL BANKS 

(e) N. Y. National Irving Bank. $82,000,000 $17,367,000 $75,741,000 $14,971,000 

Bayside National 1,270,000 296,300 1,300,000 234,700 

Flushing National , . 1,299,000 422,400 602,000 202,600 

Jamaica, First National 3,380,000 986,400 3,190,000 809,200 

Ozone Park, First National.. 1,935,000 685,400 1,764,000 555,700 

Whitestone, First National.. 689,000 282,800 418,000 186,900 

Far Rockaway National 1,979,000 848,000 1,783,000 741,800 

Ridgewood National 6,235,700 1,225,100 4,539,400 971,000 

(f) First Nat'l of Richmond Hill 1,924,000 ■ 1,733,000 • 

(a) 1913 figures are those of the former Bank of Long Island. Main office in Queens 
Borough is at Jamaica. Other branches are maintained at 

Long Island City Ridgewood Flushing 

Corona Fresh Pond Road Far Rockaway 

Elmhurst Richmond Hill Rockaway Beach 

College Point Woodhaven Seaside 

(b) Four branches in Long Island City and one in Flushing. 

(c) 1913 figures are those of former Queens County Trust Company. Branches in 
Jamaica and Long Island City. 

(d) Branches are located in Long Island City and Jamaica. 

(e) 1913 figures are those of the former Broadway Trust Company, which later became 
the Irving Trust Company and now the New York National Irving Bank. 

,(f) Incorporated April 1920. 




Photograph taken April 1920 shows new Long Island City Savings Bank 
Building, the First Mortgage Guarantee Company new building, the Title Guar- 
antee and Trust Co. building upon which construction work had just started, 
and Long Island City branch of The Bank of the Manhattan Company. 



138 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

LIGHT, HEAT AND POWER 

The development of a modern community is dependent upon an adequate 
supply of electricity and gas for power, heating and lighting purposes. It is an 
advantage from an industrial standpoint to be able to obtain reliable electric 
power from a central station source of supply for the operation of machinery 
and for the lighting of factories and homes. Gas for heating and power pur- 
poses, as well as lighting, is economical and dependable. 

ELECTRIC COMPANIES 

The New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company, whose main 
offices are on the Bridge Plaza, Long Island City, serves the First, Second, Third 
and Fourth Wards of the Borough ; while the Queensboro Gas and Electric 
Company, whose offices are in Far Rockaway, serves the Fifth. The total out- 
put of these two companies increased from 15,000,000 kilowatt hours in 1911 
to 66,000,000 kilowatt hours in 1919. 

The New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company was formed 
in 1900 by the consolidation of the various companies operating in the former 
towns in Queens County prior to its becoming part of Greater New York. 

The Queensboro Gas and Electric Company was formed in 1902 and serves 
not only the Rockaway Peninsula (Fifth Ward), but also a part of Nassau 
County. 

Electricity supplied by a central station requires no investments for engines, 
generators and auxiliaries and for the floor space which they occupy. It does 
away with the cost of fuel, labor supply, fire regulations and increased taxes and 
insurance. It is reliable, safe, clean, efficient and economical. Electricty is 
supplied to all parts of Queens Borough at rates which compare favorably with 
those of any city on the Atlantic coast generating power by steam. The system 
of the New York and Queens Electric Light and Power Company is inter-con- 
nected with the electric power systems located in Manhattan and Brooklyn, thus 
insuring against break-downs. Exceptional facilities are offered to manufac- 
turers and residents for power and light. Detailed rates may be obtained upon 
application to the Companies. 

GAS COMPANIES 

Illuminating gas for lighting, heating and industrial uses is supplied to resi- 
dents and manufacturers of the Borough by several different companies. The 
total production of gas manufactured in the Borough increased from 6,000,000 
M. cubic feet in 1911 to 30,000,000 M. cubic feet in 1919. 

The immense plant- of the Astoria Light, Heat and Power Company, cover- 
ing an area of 350 acres, is located in the extreme northwest section of Long 
Island City. All of its output is sold to he Consolidated Gas Company of New 
York which supplies the Boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. This plant is 
said to be the largest of its kind in the world and represents an outlay of more 
than $100,000,000. 



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The entire nine units of which the plant will ultimately be composed will 
have a capacity of 250,000,000 cubic feet daily. It is now producing 50,000,000 
cubic feet daily, and, with the new unit which is now under construction, will pro- 
duce 80,000,000 cubic feet per day within a short time. 

The First Ward (Long Island City) is supplied by the East River Gas Com- 
pany, a subsidiary of the New Amsterdam Company; the former being the dis- 
tributing company, and the latter the manufacturing company, which in addition 
to supplying Long Island City, supplies a large amount to Manhattan. Its plant 
is located on Vernon Avenue and East River at the foot of Webster Avenue. 

The Newtown Gas Company, which serves the Second Ward, and the 
Woodhaven Gas Light Company, the Richmond Hill Gas Light Company and 
the Jamaica Gas Light Company, which serve the Fourth Ward, are all sub- 
sidiaries of the Brooklyn Union Gas Company. 

The Third Ward is served by the New York and Queens Gas Company a 
subsidiary of the Consolidated Gas Company of New York. 

The Fifth Ward is served by the Queens Borough Gas and Electric Company 
which manufactures both gas and electricity. 

TELEPHONES 

In 1910, 47,750 messages were sent daily from 9,613 telephones in Queens 
Borough, as compared with 92,167 messages from 24,203 telephones in 1915, and 
186,125 messages sent daily from 40,834 telephones in 1920. In other words, 
in 1920 the total number of calls will approximate 68,000,000 (136 per capita) as 
compared with 17,000,000 calls in 1910 (60 per capita). This is an increase of 
300% and affords a striking picture of the rapid growth of the Borough in the 
past decade as indicated by the development of its telephone system. 

To serve the telephone users of Queens, the New York Telephone Company 
now maintains in the borough five Commercial Offices and twelve Central Offices. 
The commercial offices are located in Long Island City, Jamaica, Flushing, Far 
Rockaway and Richmond Hill. The central offices are Astoria, Bayside, Far 
Rockaway, Flushing, Forest Hills, Hammels, HoUis, Hunters Point, Jamaica, 
Newtown, Richmond Hill and Springfield. 

At the present time the Telephone Company is carrying out a large program 
of expansion in Queens Borough, which calls for the immediate expenditure of 
several millions of dollars. In the past five years the Telephone Company has 
spent three and a half millions of dollars to extend and improve its plant in 
Queens, and expects to spend over five million dollars in the next five years for 
further extensions to care for the business, residence and manufacturing develop- 
ments of the Borough. 

This program involves the construction of new cable and pole lines and large 
additions to the Astoria, Richmond Hill, Far Rockaway and Hammels Central 
Office Buildings and the enlargement of the switchboards in the Astoria, New- 



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town, Jamaica, Richmond Hill, Hammels, Flushing, Bayside and Far Rockaway 
Central Offices. This work is designed to build up the telephone system in 
Queens to meet all demands for service during the next few years. 

As it is generaly known, when the United States entered the World War, 
the Government ruled that the commercial telephone business was a non-essential 
industry. Under that ruling there was no telephone construction for two years 
except for meeting the needs of the government and Yi^ar industries. In the 
same period the Telephone Company's reserve supply of spare facilities which 
enabled it in normal years to meet all demands for service promptly, was used 
up. When the Armistice was signed there began a tremendous boom in business 
accompanied by a record-breaking demand for telephone service. The Telephone 
Company had not sufficient spare facilities available for meeting this demand and 
although it accomplished a great deal during 1919 in furnishing the needed new 
facilities it by no means met the demand in full. 

The Company's 1920 program outlined above tells its own story of the Com- 
pany's efforts to regain the ground lost during the war. It is sparing neither 
money nor effort to expand its facilities and working organization, so that it 
can restore the telephone service in Oueens Borough to its former high standards. 




Jamaica Exchange and 
Commercial Office. 



Newtown Exchange Just 
Completed at Elm hurst. 



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GOVERNMENT 

HE chief executive of the Borough of Queens is the Borough 
President. The Presidents of the Boroughs are elected every 
four years at the same time as the Mayor, Comptroller, and 
the President of the Board of Aldermen, and the present term 
expires December 31st, 1921. The Presidents of the Boroughs 
are also members of the Board of Estimate, which controls 
the finances of the city. The President of the Borough presides over all local 
boards, which are empowered to initiate such improvements as grading and pav- 
ing streets and constructing sewers, subject to the approval of the Board of Esti- 
mate if they involve an assessment. All petitions for local improvements should 
be addressed to the President of the Borough for presentation to the local board 
having jurisdiction. The President of the Borough has cognizance and control 
of all matters relating to the improvement and repair of public buildings within 
the Borough except schools, hospitals, fire and police stations. He is empowered 
to exercise the supervision vested in the city over the construction of new 
buildings, except such powers as are directly vested in the Tenement House De- 
partment. The Borough President may appoint a Commissioner of Public Works, 
whose duty it is to discharge all the administrative powers of the President re- 
lating to streets, sewers, public buildings and schools. In addition to other 
powers, the President of the Borough of Queens has jurisdiction over the clean- 
ing of streets, the removal of ashes and garbage, and the preparation of the 
topographical map. 

Borough Government 

Office Name Address 

President JNIaurice E. Connolly Long Island City 

Secretary Joseph Flanagan 

Private Secretary Hugh Hall 

Commissioner of Public Works F. X. Sullivan 

Asst. Commissioner of Public Works VV. A. Shipley 

Consulting Engineer Clifford B. Moore 

Supt. of Buildings J. W. Moore 

"' " Sewers .J. R. Higgins 

"' " Street Cleaning Daniel Enth'oldt 

''' " Pviblic Buildings Joseph Sullivan 

Eng. Topographical Bureau C. U. Powell 

Supt. of Highways John J. Kindred 

County Government 

Office Name Address 

County Judge ;..... Burt Jav Humphrey Long Island City 

Sheriff William N. George " 

District Attorney Denis O'Leary " 

Commissioner of Jurors T. C. McKennee 

County Clerk Edward W. Cox Jamaica 

Surrogate Daniel Noble . " 

Public Administrator Randolph White " 

Coroners Dr. H. W. Neail " 

■Dr. W. H. Nammack Far Rockaway 



142 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

City of New York Municipal Government 
Board of Estimate and Appportionnient 
Mayor Maine Address 

Mayor J- F. Hj^lan City Hall, New York, N. Y. 

Comptroller Charles L. Craig Municipal Bldg. " 

President Board of Aldermen. FioreWo H. La Guardia City Hall " 

Boro. of Manhattan. Henry H. Curran .Municipal Bldg. " 

" "■ Bronx H. Bruckner 3rd Ave., 177th St., Bronx 

" " Brooklyn .Edw. Riegelman Borough Hall, Brooklyn 

" "■ Queens ...Maurice E. Connolly " " L.I. City 

" " Richmond .C. D. Van Name New Brighton, S. L 

City Departments Commissioner 

Plant & Structures Grover A. Whalen Municipal Bldg., New York 

Docks & Ferries Murray Hulbert Pier A, North River " 

Parks (Queens) V. C. Benninger Forest Pk., Richm'd Hill, L. I. 

Health Dr. R. S. Copeland Centre & Walker Sts., N. Y. 

Charities B. S. Coler ' Municipal Bldg., New York 

Licenses J- F. ■ Gilchrist 57 Center St. " 

Tax & Assessments J. A. Cantor Municipal Bldg., 

IVater Supply, Gas & Electricity^. J. Haj^es Municipal Bldg., " 

Deputy Commissioner James Butler Municipal Bldg., L. L City 

(Queens) 

Fire Commissioner T. J. Drennan [Municipal Bldg., New York 

Police Richard Enright 240 Centre St., " 

Tenement House Frank ]\Iann [Municipal Bldg., " 

Corporation Counsel Wm. P. Burr Municipal Bldg., " 

Legislative Department 

The legislative power of the city is vested in the Board of Aldermen, the 
members of which are elected every two years, and the President of the Board, 
and the Presidents of the five Boroughs. The following are the Aldermen from 
the Borough of Queens : 

Nezvtown District 
District Name Address 

Sixtieth Samuel J. Burden ; . . . Long Island City 

Sixty-first H. A. Alwell Glendale 

Sixty-second F. J. Schmitz College Point 

Jamaica District 

Sixty-third C. A. Post Flushing 

Sixty-fourth W. B. Hazelwood Richmond Hill 

New York State Legislature 
Senate 

The County of Queens constitutes the Second and Third Senate District for 
the State of New York. 
District Name Address 

Second J. L. Karle Ridgewood 

Third P. J. McGarry Long Island City 

Assembly 

Assembly District Name Address 

First P. A. Leininger Long Island City 

Second B. Schwab Ridgewood 

Fourth E. J. Neary Corona 

Tliird N. M. Pette Jamaica 

Fifth R. Halpern Richmond Hill 

Sixth H. Baum Union Course 

Federal Government 

House of Representatives 

First F. C. Hicks Port Washington 

Second C. P. Caldwell Forest Hills 

United States Senate : — William E. Calder James W. Wadswortb 



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QUEENS-A BOROUGH OF VAST RESOURCES 

By Maurice E. Connolly 
President of the Borough of Queens 

There is no more interesting example of community development than that 
presented by the changes wrought in the Borough of Queens in the last ten years. 
If any one were to picture in his mind the borough as it was at the end of the 
last decade and compare it with the borough as it is today, it would seem as 
though Aladdin with his wonderful lamp had transformed it. 

Ten years ago the Borough of Queens consisted of a collection of villages 
more or less disconnected. It was joined to Manhattan by ferries that ran in- 
termittently. The Queensboro Bridge had just been opened as a toll bridge, but 
no trolleys were operating on it and traffic was very small indeed. Many of the 
streets in the borough were almost impassable with prolonged disrepair. Rapid 
transit was not even anticipated. Our population was only 280,000. The in- 
dustrial products of the Borough were worth but $150,000,000 per year. The 
total value of the real estate of the borough as shown upon the tax books was 
$293,235,905. The borough had no comprehensive sewer system. It had only a 
few local sewers in Long Island City, Flushing, Jamaica and other villages. Gar- 
bage was disposed of by most primitive and unsanitary methods. Street were 
uncared for, unsightly and dirty. The city map, which is the plan and basis 
upon which all public improvements are based, was but 24 per cent complete. 

There was no unity of purpose, each independent community shifted for it- 
self, and the undeveloped areas between were cared for by no one. 

And what of today ! The arms to two systems of rapid transit have been 
constructed with routes in the borough. Direct transit connection with Man- 
hattan has at last been accomplished, and for the first time in its history Queens 
can be reached from Manhattan and the Bronx for a single fare. The elevated 
transit systems of Brooklyn have been extended well into the borough, and the 
trolley lines have been greatly improved. Many of the important arterial high- 
ways were paved for the first time since consolidation, this pavement work being 
paid for by the city at large. The borough now houses m^ore than 1500 factories 
with products worth $248,000,000 per year. There- has been a great inrush of 
people looking for homes. Practically every house in the borough is tenanted, 
and great numbers of buildings are in course of construction, despite the high 
prices of materials, in an attempt to house those who are clamoring to come here. 
No more striking proof of the confidence of large capital in the future of this 
borough can be offered than the substantial character of the improvement re- 
cently constructed by the Pennsylvania Railroad and the New York Connecting 
Railroad. 

During the last ten years the Borough of Queens has laid, repaved and 
resurfaced 146 miles of streets. In all, it has constructed approximately $10,- 
200,000 worth of public improvements. There has been prepared and adopted 



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final maps for 22,800 acres. Building operations have increased tremendously. 
The Zoning Law has been established, so that there is now no haphazard building. 
The intensive development of Manhattan being precluded, the natural outlet for 
the overflow of building development is into Queens. The house refuse and 
street cleaning wastes are disposed of in a scientific manner, in the most modern 
of model disposal plants. These plants are so located as to create the minimum 
disadvantage to the communities they serve, great care having been exercised in 
the selection of their sites. Mosquito breeding meadows have been reclaimed into 
broad acres, which will soon be covered with model factories. Some of the finest 
residential suburbs in the world are located in the borough. The Queens-Boule- 
vard and the Jamaica Bay Boulevard projects are in such a condition that they 
can be physcially improved at any time, the only reason why the construction has 
been delayed being the unsettled conditions resulting from the war. 

During the past ten years the borough has grown beyond the expectations 
of most of us and during the next ten years wonderful growth is almost certain 
to be experienced, when some of our plans begin to bear fruit. Large capital and 
industries have, by their reception, been given confidence in the manner in which 
the public improvements are being carried out and important work is in progress. 
It is a matter of common knowledge that, due to its natural advantages, its close 
proximity to the business and pleasure centres of Manhattan, its healthful and 
attractive environment, the topographic and geographic formation. Queens must 
ultimately be the greatest of the five boroughs. It contains, complete in itself, 
residences for the laborers, mechanics and owners ; and factories to supply work 
for all. There are freight and water terminal facilities, and every natural ad- 
vantage that a commercial city should possess. The growth of the borough is 
progressing upon sound, natural and stable lines. We have emerged from the 
war and are marching on into the greatest prosperity which this borough has ever 
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MORTGAGES 

More than $200,000,000 was invested in mortgages on Queens Borough im- 
proved and unimproved property during the past ten years. The title companies 
have been the most active lenders, although the savings banks and building and 
loan associations have put out large sums. These loans are made to investors 
who acknowledge the firm basis upon which loans are made in Queens and the 
value of the Borough real estate. The figures given in this article indicate that 
real estate in Queens Borough is upon a satisfactory basis. Viewed from the 
standpoint of a real estate developer and investor, and those who are promoting 
the advancement of Queens Borough, it is a more than satisfactory situation. 

Realty Trust 

Mortgages Mortgages 

Year ending July ist, 1912 $25,493,973 $ I3.534.750 

" " " , T913 23,768,190 309,168,592 

" " , 1914 ; 18,870,093 45,068,457 

" " , 1915 19.371,757 52,287,042 

" '■ Dec. 31st, 1916 21,519,811 30,519,811 

" " " " , 1917 16,326,260 272,300 

" " " " , 1918 10,052,067 796.799 

Jan. ist to Aug. ist, 1919 10,980,054 704,600 

AREA 

The Borough of Queens is not only the largest of the five boroughs of New 
York City, but is larger than every city in the United States except Los Angeles, 
New Orleans, Chicago and Philadelphia. It has exactly the same area as the 
County of London, England, in which there is a population of 4,500,000. 

Queens Borough contains 117.36 square miles, or 75,111 acres, and repre- 
sents 37.4% of the total area of New York City. It is more than five times as 
large as Manhattan, nearly three times as large as the Bronx, and is almost as 
large as Brooklyn and Richmond combined. 

Area 

In Acres In Square Miles Per Cent of Total 

Queens 75,iii ^^7-36 37-4 

Brooklvn 49,68o 77-62 24.7 

Richmond 36,600 57-19 . i«-2 

Manhattan 14.038 21.93 6.8 

The Bronx .• 26,017 40-65 ^--9 

Total 201,446 314-75 loo.o 

Area of Queens Borough by Wards 

Acres 

Ward Upland Under Water Total Square Miles 

First 4,740.6 . . - '. 4.740-6 7-41 

Second 13,968.7 116.0 14.084.7 22.01 

Third 19,355-2 i49-0 19.504-2 30-47 

Fourth 25,189.2 5,610.8 30,800.0 38.12 

Fifth 3,920.7 2,060.7 5,981.4 9-35 

Totals 67,174-4 7.936.5 75,110.9 117-36 

Included in Queens Borough are 1186 acres (2 square miles) of municipal 
parks; 1960 acres (3 square miles) of cemeteries; and 7936 (12^ square miles) 



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of land under water; leaving a balance of 100 square miles available for resi- 
dential and industrial development. The fact that not only one-half of this area 
is within 10 miles of the business center of New York, and that more of Oueens 
Borough is within that distance than any other borough is shown by the follow- 
ing table : 

From Grand Central Terminal 

1 ]\Iile Circle 

2 " 

3 " 

4 " 

5 " 

6 " 

7 " 

8 " 

9 " 

10 

POPULATION 

Not more than twelve cities in the United States exceed Oueens Borough in 
population, for it has a population in 1920 of approximately 500,000. It jumped 
from 25th place in 1900 to 19th place in 1910, and it is expected that it will ex- 
ceed every other city except New York, Philadelphia and Chicago by 1930. when, 
without doubt, it will have a population of 1,000,000, as a result of the great 
influx of homeseekers, due to the great industrial development and the operation 
of its many new rapid transit lines. 

Although the United States Census figures for 1920 were not available when 
this publication was printed, the following tabulation gives an estimate of the 
population in the various communities included in Oueens Borough. 





Square 


Miles 




Queens 


Brooklyn 


Bronx 


ManJiattan 


— 


— 


— 


2.63 


1.22 


0.42 


— 


7-85 


4.12 


2.10 


— 


12.18 


8.46 


5-45 


— 


IS-OI 


14.09 


10.41 


0.70 


16.81 


20.29 


16.46 


2.89 


17-75 


26.16 


22.75 


6.6s 


i8.5i' 


33.68 


31.62 


11.26 


19-30 


43-13 


41-39 


16.70 


20.16 


53-91 


50-41 


24-13 


20.20 







Est. Populat 


on 


Est. Popnl 


Coinviunity 




1920 


Couinuinity 


1920 


Long Island City 


90,000 


Richmond Hill 


50,000 


Ridgewood 




70,000 


Jamaica 


40,000 


Corona 




40,000 


Woodhaven 


30,000 


Elmhnrst 




18,000 


Ozone Park 


16,000 


Woodside-Win 


field 


13,000 


Oueens 


4,500 


Forest Hills 




3,000 


Hollis 


4,000 


Flushing 




35,000 


Springfield-St. Albans 


3,000 


College Point 




16,000 


Laurelton 


3,000 


Whitestone 




7,000 


Seaside 


7.900 


Bayside 




7,000 


Far Rockaway 


25,000 


Douglaston 




1,400 


Hammels 


15,000 


Little Neck 




1,200 







WATER SUPPLY 

A large proportion of Oueens Borough (particular the First and Third 
Wards) is supplied by the famous Catskill Water System, insuring the very finest 
water for drinking purposes as well as manufacturing uses. One big main has 
a capacity of 40.000,000 gallons per day. 

Among the private water companies which furnish various sections of the 
Borough are : — 

(a) Citizen's Water Supply Company, Second Ward; 

(b) Jamaica Water Supply Company and Woodhaven Supply Company, 
Fourth Ward ; 

(c) Oueens Coimty Water Company which supplies the Fifth Ward. 



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ASSESSED VALUATION AND TAX RATE 

The amazing growth of the Borough of Queens since it became a part of 
New York City is shown by the following -tables which set forth the increase in 
the assessed valuation of land and improvements. 

The increase in the total assessed valuation from $103,752,000 in 1899 to 
$636,409,000 in 1920 or a total increase of $532,657,000 in 21 years (an average 
per year of $25,370,000), is the result of the hundreds of new industrial estab- 
lishments and the thousands of new homes which have been constructed in tlie 
borough during that time. The total assessed valuation has almost doubled since 
1910, and is today greater than that of Brooklyn when that borough became a 
part of New York City. 



Year 


Total Real Estate 


Value of 






Tax Rate 




Assessment 


Improvemen 


ts 




Per%ioo 


1899 


$ 103,752,600 


No 






$ 3.27 


1900 
1901 


104,427.772 
107,179,620 


Separate 






2.34 

2.35 


1902 


108,859,704 


Value 






2.31 


1903 


123,781,723 


Given 






1.47 


1904 


I3i>379,723 


$ 45,147,250 






1-57 


1905 


140,404,990 


50,113,225 






1-55 


1906 


159,446,205 


65,144,845 






1-55 


1907 


217,668,775 " 


73,354,150 






1-53 


1908 


296.458,080 


88.111,404 






1.66 


1909 


308,112,605 


96.557,609 






1.72 


1910 


334,563,960 


107,770,243 






i.8r 


1911 


446.569.352 


131,268,935 






1-73 


1912 


456,750,530 


140,794,500 






1.84 


1913 


477,702.836 


156,026,337 






1.8s 


1914 


488,686,756 


166,008,357 






1.80 


1915 


509,515,978 


180,899,338 






1-95 


1916 


539,394.614 


198,002,225 






2.06 


1917 


569,865,007 


262,163,139 






2.09 


1918 


591.599,075 


279,616,500 






2.41 


1919 


604,827,476 


292,249,696 






2.37 


1920 


636,409,159 


317,182,349 






2.54 




ASSESSED VALUATIONS BY WARDS 








T910 


1920 






Increase 


Ward I 


$ 73-492.875 


$139,570,550 






$ 66,077,675 


Ward 2 


70,671,120 


156,170,525 






85.499.40s 


Ward ^ 


50,850,550 


78,637,570 






27,787,020 


Ward 4 


85,836,985 


141,768,020 






55,931,03s 


Ward 5 


27,099,030 


53,547,910 






26,448,880 


Real Estate 


$307,950,560 


$569,694,575 


$261,744,015 


Real Estate 


'f Corporations 1 1 ,695,500 


37,577,450 






25,881,850 


Special Frar 


ichises 14,917,800 


29,137,134 






14,219.334 


Total 


$334,563,060 


$636,409,159 


$301,845,199 




ASSESSED VALUATION— NEW YORK CITY 




Borough 


1899 


1920 


Increase Per Cent Inc. 


Queens 


$ 103,751,600 


$ 636,409,159 $ 


532 


,657.559 


513 


Bronx 


123,702,030 


753,^08,264 


629,606.234 


509 


Brooklyn 


600.822.267 


1,937,811,205 I, 


.327 


,988,938 


219 


Richmond 


40,265,464 


ITI,82I,IQ2 


71 


.555,728 


177 


Manhattan 


2,054,903.875 


5,186,771.887 3: 


.13I: 


,868,012 


153 


New York City 


$2,932,445,464 


.$8,626,121,707 ~ $5,693,676,243 


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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE 

BOROUGH OF QUEENS 

CITY OF NEW YORK 

(Incorporated April, 1911.) 
"To Promote the General Welfare of the Borough of Queens, City of Neiv York, 

and to Foster Its Commerce." 

EXECUTIVE OFFICES 

Bridge Plaza, Long Island City, New York City. 
Telephone, Astoria 2500. 
The officers and directors of the Chamber for the year 1920-21 are: — 
President, H. Pushae Williams, Flushing 

Vice-President, James E. Clonin, Long Island City 

Vice-President, George H. Willcockson, Elmhurst 

Treasurer, P. A. Rowley, 

Secretary, Walter I. Willis, 

SENIOR COUNCIL 
William H. Williams, President 

Robert W. Higbie, 
Charles G. M. Thomas, 
George J. Ryan, " 

Term Expires 1922 
John H. Penchoen 
Edward Roche 
Edward A. MacDougall 
Charles G. Meyer 
John W. Rapp 
EXECUTIVE STAFF 

Walter I. Willis 
P. W. Moore 
John J. Sonderman 
Percival Mullikin 
E. R. Hudson 



Term Expires 1921 
Theodore Steinway 
George C. Dickel 
Ray Palmer 
Michael J. Degnon 
John F. Galvin 



Jamaica 
Flushing 

1911-13 

1913-15 

1915-17 

1917-19 
Term Expires 1923 
John Adikes 
John M. Demarest 
Stuard Hirschman 
Henry J. Mullen 
Morris L. Willets 



Secretary 

Mgr. Traffic & Industrial Bureaus 

Ass't Secretary 

Ass't Secretary 

Ass't Secretary 





A Luncheon Club Adjoins the Club Room — For Meetings and Pri- 
Chamber Offices and vate Conferences, Adjoins the 

Club Room. Executive Offices. 



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WHY 



ARE 650 BUSINESS MEN AND 

PUBLIC SPIRITED CITIZENS OF QUEENS BOROUGH 

MEMBERS OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 



REASON I— The Traffic Bureau 

This Bureau is organized to render to members a service of information and 
advice regarding rates, routes, classifications, claims and any problems which may 
arise in connection with the shipment of goods. It is constantly operating to 
protect the Borough of Queens from undue discrimination in transportation mat- 
ters and to safeguard the interests of Queens Borough business men in all matters 
relative to the general adjustment of rates. Monthly meetings of the "Traffic 
Club" are held for the discussion and solution of mutual shipping problems. 
REASON 2 — The Industrial Bureau 

Clears all industrial information concerning Queens ; renders service to 
established manufacturers and to those seeking a location for their plants in this 
vicinity. The Industrial Manager cooperates with real estate owners and brokers 
to make such a space available. The Bureau maintains on record all of the in- 
dustrial plants in Queens Borough. 

The "Personnel Managers' Club," which holds monthly meetings, at which 
problems of employment, housing, welfare, sanitation, "turnover," and other 
labor questions are discussed by the individuals responsible for such work in the 
factories of Queens. 

REASON 3 — The Chamber is only representative organization of the Borough 
of Queens including in its membership men from every section of the Borough, 
who are interested in the industrial, financial, commercial, residential, and gen- 
eral development of Queens Borough. 

REASON A — The Chamber promotes your prosperity by advancing the business 
interests of Queens Borough. 

REASON 5 — It protects members from unjust exactions. 

REASON 6 — It promotes business friendship and thereby lessens, removes, or 
prevents friction and misunderstanding between business men. 
REASON 7 — It broadens business men's views on government and business. 
REASON 8 — Secures important improvements.- City, state and national offi- 
cials recognize organized business men and when the Chamber recommends 
improvements to transit facilities, waterfront, highways and other important 
matters, its recommendations are received favorably and given thorough con- 
sideration. 
REASON 9 — Queensborough Magazine 

Publishes each month the Queensborough Magazine which reports the rapid 
growth of the Borough, which at the present time has no counterpart anywhere 
else in New York City. 
REASON 10 — Committees 

A dozen standing committees are working constantly for the interests of 
Queens' business men and dealing with transit, waterway development, manu- 
facturing, borough planning, highways, legislation, arbitration, schools' parks 
sewers, water and housing. In addition there are many Special Committees 
working on specific problems. 



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MEMBERSHIP (April 22, 1920) 



Name 
James H. Abraham... 

*H. L. Adams 

J. A. Adamson 



John Adikes - 

* Frederick H. Adler. . 
*0. G. Alexander 

E. D. Anderson 

Bob Andrews 

Charles Lee Andrews 



Wallace V. Andrie.. 

Victor Anthenill 

^Harold H. Anthony.. 

Edward D. Appleton. 

Walter D. Appleyard 

James C. Archer. . . 

F. E. Armstrong . . 

B. L. At water 

George Atwell 

Martin Bach 

F. Eugene Backus. 

Isaac Baer 

■"■Otto Bahls 

*George F. Bahntge. 

Dr. Joseph Bainton 

John M. Baker 

*Herbert W. Ballantine 

*J. Herbert Ballantine 

*John H. Ballantine. 

Walter F. Ballinger. 



Joseph Banker. . . . 

*W. E. Barber 

Alfred M. Barrett 
John T. Barry. . . . 

*Charles A. Barton 

*Thomas F. Baumann 

W. A. Baumert. . . . 

Ambrose F. Becker 
*Philip L. Becker. . 

Henry L. Bell.. 

August Bellon. . 



Hal Benedict 

Alfonso Bertoni . . 

-*E. T. Bedford 

Charles R. Bettes. 
Arthur S. Beves. . 



Louis Bingmann.. 

Leon Birck 

C, H. Birdsall 

*Arni Bjornson . . . 



James P. Black. 
S. Blickman. . . . 
*William D. Bloodgood 



Samuel J. Bloomingdale 

E. L. Blun 

William J. Boardman 



Carl Bomeisler. 

Paul Bosse 

John Bossert. . . 
J. B. Bouck, Jr. 



F. G. Bradford. .. 
A. J. Bradley 

Peter J. Brady. . . 
Edward H. Brags 



*Philip B. Brewster 
^William Brewster. . 

Stephen Briggs. . . . 

Arthur W. Brockway 

Robert T. Brooks 

*Eugene L. Brown. . 
Frank G. Burke. . . . 

D. Calandra 

Charles E. Callahan 
Henry L. Caiman. . . 
Antonio Cantore .... 



Address Business Elected 

. .N. Y. City Vice-Pres. Mayer & Loewenstein Oct. 8,1915 

. .W. Ft. Lee, N. J..Selznick Pictures Corp Oct. 20,1919 

, .N. Y. City District Engineer, Lockwood, Greene & Co. 

(Architects, Engineers and Constructors) ... .Feb. 3,1919 

. .Jamaica Flour and Feed Merchant Charter 

. .L. I. City Auditor, Manhattan & Queens Traction Co.... June 16,1916 

..Jamaica Asst. Cashier, Bank of the Manhattan Co Dec. 15,1916 

.L. I. City Pres., E. D. Anderson, Inc Feb. 28, 1918 

. .L. I. City American Lead Co Apr. 22, 1920 

..Flushing DeCoppet & Doremus (Member N. Y. Stock 

Exchange) Feb. 16,1912 

.Brooklyn Knickerbocker Ice Co Feb. 28,1918 

. .L. I. City Millwright and Engineer Apr. 22, 1920 

.L. I. City Clonin & Messenger Mar. 8,1917 

. .L. I. City Vice-Pres., J. F. Tapley Co June 16,1916 

..L. I. City Treas., New York Consolidated Card Co Mar. 8,1917 

. . Jamaica Real Estate Auctioneer June 18, 1918 

..Richmond Hill... Coal and Wood June 18, 1918 

.Brooklyn Vice-Pres., Wm. Wrigley, Jr., Co ...Dec. 6,1918 

, .L. I. City Pres., Northeastern Supply Co. (Lumber) Nov. 20, 1917 

.Brooklyn Pres., Quezal Art Glass & Decorating Co June 18, 1918 

, . Forest Hills Coal and Wood May 12, 1919 

, .L. I. City Weisberg-Baer Co Apr. 6,1917 

, .L. I. City Vice-Pres.. Transport Service, Inc Sept. 27, 1918 

, .L. I. City Mgr.. L. I. City Branch, American Trust Co.. Mar. 15. 1920 

, .N. Y. Citv Board of Trustees, St. John's Hospital Apr. 4, 1919 

.L. I. City Architect Feb. 20,1920 

. . L. I. City Neptune Meter Co. (Director and Publicity 

Manager) June 24, 1919 

. .L. I. City Pres., Neptune Meter Co Jan. 26, 1917 

.L. I. City Vice-Pres., Neptune Meter Co , .Jan. 26,1917 

. .N. Y. City Ballinger & Perrot (Architects, Engineers and 

Constructors) May 12.1916 

. .L. I. City Art Ornament Co Mar. 15, 1920 

.N. Y. City Red Star Towing & Transportation Co May 12,1919 

. .N Y. City Deputy Public Service Commissioner Aug. 25, 1919 

, .L. I. City Pres., D. D. Williamson & Co Sept. 13, 1917 

.L. I. City Genl. Sales Mgr., N. Y. & Queens Elec. Light 

& Power Co June 16, 1916 

. .L. I. City Treas., Transport Service, Inc Nov. 25, 1919 

. .College Point. . . . Manufacturer of Cheese Apr. 13, 1914 

.N. Y. City Laurelton Sales Co.. Inc. (Real Estate) Jan. 12,1920 

T. I. City Mgr.. American Chicle Co Apr. 10,1916 

.aayside Bayside Supply Co. (Lumber, Coal, etc.) Oct. 8,1915 

.Rockaway Beach. Pres., August Bellon, Inc. (Structural and Or- 
namental Iron) July 25, 1918 

. .College Point Hal Benedict Studios (Motion Pictures) Feb. 20,1920 

.L. I. City Genl. Mgr., DeNobili Cigar Co Nov. 25, 1919 

.L. I. City Pres.. Repetti. Inc. (Candy) Apr. 22.1920 

.Far Rockaway. .. Chief Engr., Queens County Water Co Mar. 9,1913 

. N. Y. City Receiver, American Blau-Gas Corp. (Gas, Blau- 

Gas and Dri-Gas) Aug. 25, 1919 

.Glendale Steeplejack and Rigger Apr. 22, 1920 

.Flushing Real Estate and Building June 16, 1915 

.L. I. City Pres., Johnson Coin Counting Machine Co Jan. 12,1920 

Flushing Mgr., Bank of the Manhattan Co. (Flushing 

Branch) July 25, 1918 

, . L. I. City Supt. Burns Bros. (Coal) July 19. 1917 

, .N. Y. City Metal Goods Dec. 6,1918 

N. Y City Pres., Wm. D. Bloodgood & Co., Inc. (Real 

Estate) Oct. 25, 1912 

, .N. Y. City.. . Pres. Bloomingdale Bros., Inc. (Dept. Store). .Feb. 16,1912 

. .College Point Manhattan Silk Co Aug. 25, 1919 

..Jamaica Chairman Board of Directors, First National 

Bank of Jamaica. Apr. 4, 1919 

, .L. I. City Imperial Metal Mfg. Corp. (Metal Specialties) .July 19,1917 

,.L. I. City Pres., Premier Metal Etching -Co Feb. 28,1918 

.Brooklyn Pres.. Louis Bossert & Sons, Inc. (Lumber) .. .Apr. 9,1918 

. L I City Treas., Pratt & Lambert (Varnishes and Enam- 
els) : Oct. 20,1919 

.Flushing Manager, Gaumont Motion Pictures Co Feb. 16, 1916 

. .L. I. City A. J. Bradley Mfg. Co. (Stencil Papers and 

Ink) Sept. 13, 1917 

. .N. Y. City Supervisor, Board of City Record ,Apr. 4, 1919 

. .N. Y. City Vice-Pres., Egleston Bros. & Co., Inc. (Iron 

and Steel Merchants) June 24, 1919 

.L. I. City Treas., Brewster & Co. (Automobiles) Dec. 6,1918 

. .L. I. City Pres., Brewster & Co. (Automobiles).. Charter 

, .L. I. City Pres., Stephen Briggs, Inc. (Barrels) July 25,1918 

, .Brooklyn Secy.-Treas., Brockway-Fitzhugh-Stewart Inc., 

(Labels and Fibre Shippers' Containers) ... .June 24,1919 

. .L. I. City Vice-Pres., Geo. A. Just Co. (Structural Iron 

and Steel) Feb. 3,1919 

. .N. Y. City Rickert-Brown Realty Co Nov. 25, 1919 

. .N. Y. City Manhattan Soap Co : " Dec. 15,1916 

..L.I. City Vice-Pres.. Atlantic Macaroni Co Feb. 16,1916 

, .L.I. City Mgr,, Plaza Business School Dec. 6,1918 

. . N. Y. City Emil Caiman & Co. (Paint and Varnish) Oct. 25,1912 

. .L. I. City Real Estate Apr. 22, 1920 



^Plural Memberships 



152 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Name Address Business Elected 

Abbott L. Carpenter L. I. City F. L. Bradbury Co. (Doughnuts and Crullers) . .June 18, 1918 

*L. H. Carragan N. Y. City Sales Mgr., General Carbonic Co Nov. 25, 1919 

Henry A. Cassebeer L. I. City Charter 

♦Theodore Cassebeer L. I. City Steinway & Sons (Pianos) Charter 

George W. Cassidy L. I. City Cassidy Co., Inc. (Lighting Fixtures) Apr. 6,1917 

E. W. Caswell L. I. City Supt., Rolls-Royce Service Sta Mar. IS, 1920 

William B. Gating Maspeth Prop., Gating Rope Works Feb. 20. 1920 

E Oliver Champ Malba Real Estate Apr. 10,1916 

H Chandler L.I. City E. S. Partridge, Inc. (Automobiles) Jan. 12,1920 

Miles S. Charlock N. Y. City Pres., Century Audit Corp May 12,1916 

Charles A. Christman L. I. City Lumber Merchant Jan. 12, 1920 

C. A. Christoffers N. Y. City Rex Paint Corporation Aug. 25, 1919 

W.W.Clark L. I. City Tiffin Products, Inc. (Confectionery) Aug. 25,1919 

Audley Clarke Brooklyn Audley Clarke Co. (Building Material) Feb. 3,1919 

John Clarke N. Y. City Pres., John Clarke & Co., Inc. (Brokers in 

Spices) Jan. 14,1918 

William E. Clarke L. I. City Clarke Stamp Pad Go Apr. 22, 1920 

Edward J. Clarry L. I. City Clarry Lumber Co., Inc June 24, 1919 

John Clochessy Rockaway Beach. Paper Bags and Folding Boxes May 21,1918 

•James E. Clonin L. I. City Clonin & Messenger (Brick, Lime and Cement) . .Apr. 12, 1912 

W. E. Code, Jr L. I. City Pres., Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Go Aug. 16, 1916 

William G. Cole L. I. City Jas. A. Stevenson Co. (General Trucking) Nov. 25, 1919 

Bernard P. Golen L. I. City Sec'y, Emerson Phonograph Co.. Inc Apr. 22, 1920 

William Collins N. Y. City Walter Kidde & Co. (Engineers and Contract- 
ors) Apr. 22, 1920 

Frederick H. Gone N. Y. City Vice-Pres., Andrew Cone Advertising Co Oct. 5,1916 

Thomas I. Conerty Far Rockaway. . . Conerty-Sullivan Goal Go Jan. 4, 1918 

R. T. Conley L. I. City Eastern Mgr., Pittsburgh Plate Glass Go May 12,1919 

♦Andrew J. Connell College Point. . . . Vice-Pres., Empire Art Metal Go Aug. 16, 1916 

C. G. Cooper Brooklyn Pres., Greenpoint Fire Brick Co July 25, 1918 

G. W. Copp Flushing Real Estate Feb. 9. 1914 

D. Gorin Brooklyn Anchor Cap & Closure Corp Feb. 20, 1920 

W. R. Couch Brooklyn Pres.. G-H Motors Corp Feb. 20,1920 

Joseph N. Courtade, Jr N. Y. City Joseph N. Gourtade & Sons (Piano Gases) Aug. 25, 1919 

Charles E. Covert Jamaica Vice-Pres.. U. S. Title Guaranty Co Feb. 16, 1912 

•Morton R. Cross N. Y. City Pres.. Gross & Brown (Real Estate) June 19,1913 

Thomas W. Gullen N. Y. City Deputy Tax Commissioner Mar. 8,1917 

Christopher Cunningham . . .Brooklyn Pres.. Christopher Cunningham & Co. (Boilers) .Oct. 8, 1915 

W. J. Cunningham L. I. City Brass Foundry Apr. 22. 1920 

Wm. H. Dahman Woodhaven Supt., Lalance & Grosjean Mfg. Go Sept. 8,1911 

Arnold H. Dale L. I. City Pres., Queensborough Brass & Bronze Foun- 
dry, Inc Feb. 20, 1920 

Richard F. Dalton L. I. City Treas., N. Y. Architectural Terra Gotta Go... Apr. 9,1913 

Thomas Daly Corona Builder Jan. 26, 1917 

Albert Dasburg L. I. City Pres.. Plaza Tire & Rubber Co., Inc Mar. 15, 1920 

J. Sherlock Davis Brooklyn Pres.. Gross, Austin & Ireland Lumber Go Jan. 4, 1918 

R. H. Davis N. Y. City Real Estate Oct. 7, 1914 

Max Davidson L. I. City Treas.. Goldberg & Davidson Co Mar. IS, 1920 

Joseph P. Day N. Y. City Real Estate Auctioneer Sept. 8, 1911 

Daniel Lacy Dayton Bayside Real Estate Nov. 25, 1919 

♦Harry L. Dayton L. I. City First Mortgage Guarantee Co Oct. 20, 1919 

J. Wilson Dayton Bayside Real Estate Feb. 20,1920 

John J. Deery L. I. City Pres., John J. Deery Co. Inc Jan. 4, 1918 

Richard A. Deeves N. Y. City John H. Deeves & Bro. (Builders) Feb. 20, 1920 

♦Michael J. Degnon N. Y. City Pres.,' Degnon Realty & Terminal Impvmt. Go.) .Sept. 8, 1911 

Frank Dehn Elmhurst Pres., Elmhurst Ice Co., Inc Apr. 22, 1920 

John M. Demarest Forest Hills Vice-Pres., Sage Foundation Homes Co. (Real 

Estate) Dec. 8,1911 

P. E. Demarest L. I. City Principal. Bryant High School Apr. 6.1917 

Leopold Demuth Richmond Hill. . . Pres., William Demuth & Go. (Tobacco Pipes) . .Apr. 9, 1915 

♦Frank Devlin L. I. City Sec'y--Treas.. Oakes Mfg. Co. (Drugs, Chem- 
icals and Dyes) Sept. 13, 1917 

George C. Dickel Woodhaven Pres., Dickel Construction Go June 19.1913 

♦Alexander Dienst L. I. City National Sugar Refining Go Sept. 27. 1918 

Henry M. Dietz L. I. City Real Estate and Insurance Oct. 20, 1919 

♦John A. Dilliard Brooklyn Engineer, Louis Gold, Inc. (Builder and Real 

Estate) Oct. 20,1919 

♦William F. Dobbins N. Y. City 4th Vice-Pres., Metropolitan Life Ins. Go Nov. 25, 1919 

♦Ghas. Nelson Dodge N. Y. City Traffic Mgr., National Sugar Refining Co. of 

New Jersey Aug. 25. 1919 

H. Doggweiler N. Y. City Sec'y, J. A. Migel. Inc. (Silk) Oct. 20, r919 

♦John I. Doherty N. Y. City Sec'y, Degnon Realty & Terminal Improvement 

Co. . . June 18. 1918 

W. H. Dohrmann Brooklyn Pres.. Atlantic Hygienic Ice Co Feb. 3,1919 

James A. Donald L. I. City Lumber Merchant May 31,1917 

Edward Donner L. I. (Tity Donner House Wrecking Co., Inc. (Second- 

Hand Lumber Merchants) Aug. 25. 1919 

William F. Donovan Brooklyn Vice-Pres., Flushing Bay Improvement Co.... Oct. 11.1915 

A. H. Doolittle L. I. City Glaudel Carburetor Co Feb. 20, 1920 

J. H. Doolittle N. Y. City Real Estate Developer Apr. 13,1914 

Edw. J. Dotterweich Buffalo Manufacturer Concrete Machinery May 9, 1918 

♦H.W.Drake Brooklyn Com'I Manager, N. Y. Telephone Co., L. I. 

Division) Dec. 19.1913 

John Drew Elmhurst Branch Supt., Model Brassiere Co Feb. 20, 1920 

Henry Duchardt N. Y. City Real Estate Nov. 25, 1919 

Stephen J. Duffy Brooklyn Treas., J. P. Duffy Co. (Building Material) June 24 1919 

W. B. Dukeshire Maspeth Sec'y-Treas. Dukeshire Steel & Forge Go July 25,1918 

A. M. Duncan L. I. City Sec'y, Cole-Duncan Boiler Works Oct. 20, 1919 

♦B. Waller Duncan L. I. City General Mgr., Manhattan & Queens Traction 

Corp Dec. 6,1918 

^Plural Memberships 



New York City 153 

Name Address Business ^ ^ ^ ^. . ^'^^/'^^^n,^ 

*Fred S Dunn L. I. City Asst. Treas., Queensboro Corporation Aug. 16,1915 

Frank Dunnel, Jr Elmhurst Automobile and Tractor Merchant Mar. 15, 1920 

T. Coleman DuPont N. Y. City Manufacturer ...........; ........ ..June 24, 1919 

Eueene W. Durkee Elmhurst E. R. Durkee & Co. (Spices and Food Prod- 

^ ucts) ., Apr. 6,1917 

H. Gordon Duval L. I. City Pres., Duvalian Products Corp. (Leather ^-,„„„ 

Goods) Feb. 20, 1920 

Charles P. Early L. I. City Treas., A. Recknagel, Inc (Hardware) Mar. 15,1920 

*Lee J. Eastman N. Y. City Pres., Packard Motor Car Co. of N. Y Nov. 25, 1919 

Henry F. Ecks L. I. City Domestic Soap Mfg. Co ......Apr. 4,1919 

Adolph J. Egelhof N. Y. City Vice-Pres.,, Wills-Egelhof Co., Inc. (Builders) . .Apr. 4,1919 

*Theodore W Egly L. I. City Asst. Mgr., New York National Irving Bank. .Apr. 22,1920 

Samuel Eichen N. Y. City Shore Acres Realty Co................ Sept. 8, 1911 

A D Eldert Jamaica Pres., John R.Carpenter & Co. (Lumber) July 23, 1916 

Byron E. Eldred Flushing Pres., Commercial Research Co (Metal Etching, 

Welding, Chemical Products) Aug. 16,1916 

Lewis A. Eldridge N. Y. City Sec'y-Treas., N. Y. & East River Ferry Co. . . .Feb. 28, 1918 

Joseph Elias L. I. City Joseph Elias & Co. (Glass) ............... .June 16, 915 

*Jesse F. Ellsworth L. I. City Mgr.. Corn Exchange Bank (Astoria Branch) .. Dec. 20,1912 

A. Ephraem College Point L. I. Manufacturing Co. (Hats) Oct. 20,1919 

Oscar Erlandsen Jamaica Pres.. Metropolis Engineering Co. (Engineers 

and Surveyors) Nov. 19, 1915 

Leander B. Faber Jamaica Justice, Supreme Court of New York. ....... .Dec. 8,1911 

Walter S. Faddis N. Y. City Vice-Pres.. Cauldwell Wingate Co. (Builders) . .Oct. 8,1915 

Thomas E. Fagans Elmhurst Mgr., Elmhurst Coal Co Feb. 20, 1920 

Archie Fahnestock L. I. City Mgr.,Fahnestock Electric Co Nov. 25, 1919 

Michel Feldine L. I. City Pres., Lauraine Magneto Co. ... . . ... . . . Aug. 23, 1919 

J U Ferris College Point Asst. Treas., Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.... June 18, 1918 

*Benjkmin J.' Field.' .".'.'.".'.'.' ."l. I. City Pres., Howell Field & Goddard, Inc. (Metal 

Doors and Fireproofing) June 16, 1915 

*Raymond Charles Finch.... Flushing Chief Engineer, Hunter Illuminated Car Sign 

Co Sept. 27, 1918 

Joseph Fischel L I City Comfort Sandal Mfg. Co May 9,1918 

John C Fisher ' L I City John C. Fisher Mfg. Co. (Metal Specialties) . .July 25,1918 

Edward W. Fitzpatrick L. I. City. . . . . .. Contractor . . . . . . . ... ....... ... ■ . • ..... • . • • -Apr. 4, 1919 

Lewis W. Flaunlacher N. Y. City Vice-Pres., M. & L. Hess, Inc (Real Estate) . .Jan. 12, 1916 

A. H. Flint College Point.... Vice-Pres., L. W. F. Engineering Co. (Air- 

craft and Accessories) May 21, 1917 

James W. Florida L.I. City Gen'l Service Mgr., Packard Motor Car Co. 

of N. Y Jan. 12, 1920 

Thomas J. Foster L. I. City dim. Board of Directors, National Bridge ,_,.,. 

Works (Structural Steel and Iron) June 10, 1914 

Clifford S. Fox L. I. City Supt. of Distribution, East River Gas Go Apr. 9, 1913 

William Fox N. Y. City Pres., Fox Film Corporation June 16, 1916 

James Frank N. Y. City Attorney, Real Estate....... l;eb. 9. lyj^ 

Charles W. Frazier L. I. City Pres., Brett Lithographing Co ............ .Oct. », IVlb 

*George H. Frew N. Y. City Mgr., Corn Exchange Bank (5Sth St. Branch) . .Apr. 6, 19 5 

William J. Friedrick L. I. City Asst. Treas., Old Reliable Motor Truck Corp. .Oct. 20.1919 

Wm. E. G. Gaillard N. Y. City Gaillard Realty Co., Inc Feb. 20, 1920 

*Robert C. Galindo. Jr L. I. City Jurgen Rathjen Co. (Coal) . . . . . .June 24,1919 

John F Galvin L I City Pres., Metal Stamping Co. (Auto Accessories) . .June 19, 1913 

Thomas C. Gannon N. Y. City Queens Representative. Pennsylvania Cement ,,o,o 

•^ Qq Apr. 4,1919 

Garret J. Garretson Elmhurst Official' Referee N. Y. State Supreme Court ..Feb. 28,1918 

John R. Garside L.I. City Pres., A. Garside & Son, Inc. (Women s ,^,„,, 

Shoes) May 12, 1916 

Chas. L. Gehnrich L. I. City Vice-Pres., Gehnrich Indirect Heat Oven Co. 

(Ovens, Sheet Metal) Oct. 29, 1919 

Leonard Genovese L. I. City Building Contractor Apr. 22, 1920 

William R. Gibson Woodhaven W. R. Gibson Co., Inc. (Builders) Mar. 15. 1920 

Earl A. Gillespie Woodhaven Lumber Merchant b 7c i mn 

John T. Gleason L. I. City Sec'y-Treas., Codex' Antiseptic Co Mar. 15,1920 

Marshall W. Gleason Brooklyn Pres., Gleason-Tiebout Glass Co -^eb. iU. iJiS 

*A. C. Goddard L. I. City Treas., Howell, Field & Goddard Jan. 12,1912 

*C. H. Goddard L. I. City Pres., American Drugsists' Snydicate June 16,1915 

*Leon G. Godley N. Y. City Vice-Pres.. American Chicle Co Aug. 25, 1919 

*Louis Gold Brooklyn Engineer and Budder ....................... .Aug. 25,1919 

W. S. Goldfrank N. Y. City Sec'y, Stem-Dayies Co (Dextrine, Starch) ... .Nov. 25, 1919 

Simon Gottschall L. I. City Pres., Star Ribbon Mfg. Co ........... .July 25,1918 

Charles J. Grant L. I. City Pres. and Treas., Marcus Ward, Inc. (Station- ^^^ 16 1916 

Edward Grauer Jamaica Mgr. Metropolitan Tobacco Co. ............. .Dec. 6.1918 

John A. Gray L. I, City Sec'y-Treas,, Sweeney & Gray Co. (Machinists 

and Hydraulic Engineers) Mar. 15,1920 

L. W. Greiner N. Y. City Mpr„ Liquid Carbonic Co. (Soda Fountains, 

Bottling Machines) Nov. 25, 1919 

T. Edward Gresslee L. I, City Real Estate • Apr. 22, 1920 

■\dolph J Gretschel L. I. City Real Estate. Insurance and Mortgage Loans. . .June 24,1919 

fohn W. Grey Flushing Pres., Supreme Pictures. Inc. (Motion Pic- ,^,„„n 

tures) -Tan. 12.1920 

Morgan Grossman L. I. City Morgan Gross Co., Inc. (Shoes) Mar 15 1920 

J. D. Hackett N. Y. City Labor consultant Sept. 27, 1918 

^ Hager L, I, City Motorcycles Apr. 22, 1920 

Tohn T Halieran Flushing Real Estate. Appraisals Sept. 8,1911 

■James T.Hallinan Flushing Lawyer (Hallinan & Groh) Apr. 4. 919 

Tohn T Halpin N. Y. City Scott. Gerard & Bowers (Lawyers) Mar. 8, 1917 

John W Hamilton N. Y. City Hamilton & Chambers Co. (Engineers) Apr. 6,1917 

William 'j. Hamilton Corona Real Estate _. Charter 

*Plural Memberships 



154 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Name Address Business Elected 

F. I. Hamm Jamaica Mgr., Jamaica Poster Advertising Co May 9, 1918 

*George B. Hanavan L. I. City Vice-Pres., L. I. Star Publisliing Co :May 9,1918 

M. Hanensen N. Y. City Pres., Piroxloid Products Corp I,[ar. 15, 1920 

*E. Irving Hanson N. Y. City Mgr.. H. R. Mallinson & Co. (Silks) Nov. 25, 1919 

Wallace J. Hardgrove Flushing Operators Associates, Inc. (Real Estate) June 16, 1916 

William E. Harmon College Point. ... Treas. and Gen'l Mgr., Harmon Color Works, 

Inc Nov. 13, 1916 

Judson A. Harrington N. Y. City Industrial Real Estate Feb. 16,1916 

H. Trowbridge Harris L. I. City Real Estate and Insurance Feb. 20, 1920 

John T. Harrison N. Y. City Asst. to Vice-Pres., Fidelity and Deposit Co. 

of Maryland (Surety Bonds) Nov. 13, 1916 

James F. Hart Brooklyn Hart Waterproof Mfg. Co.. Inc. (Canvas 

Goods) Dec. 6,1918 

W. E. Haskin L. I. City Vice-Pres., Pressed & Welded Steel Products 

Co., Inc Dec 6,1917 

Robert R. Haslett Brooklyn L. I. Editor, Brooklyn Daily Eagle May 12,1919 

S. R. Hatchett N. Y. City Pres., Sawyer Biscuit Co Jan. 12, 1920 

Harold Hawkins L. I. City Real Estate Apr. 22, 1920 

Elbert \\'. Hawlev Bayside C. H. Hawley & Sons (Coal and Wood) May 12,1919 

A. M. Hayes L. I. City Sec'y. Van Iderstine Co Nov. 20, 1917 

S. P. Havward L. I. City Connolly Iron Sponge & Governor Co. (Pipe) . .Mar. 15, 1920 

Henry Hellman L. I. City Ford Dealer Apr. 22, 1920 

Richard Hellman L. I. City Pres., Richard Hellmann, Inc. (Food Prod- 
ucts) Sept. 13, 1917 

*David G. Helme L. I. City McLoughlin & Helme (Plumbing Contractors) . .Mar. 15,1920 

F. W. Herz L. I. City Pres., National Varnish Co Aug. 25. 1919 

H. G. Heyson Far Rockaway. . . Pres., National Bank of Far Rockaway Apr. 4, 1919 

Frederick C. Hicks Washington, D. C.U. S. Congressman Jan. 12,1916 

Harry H. Hicks Rockaway Beach. Pres., Hicks, Hicks & Hicks, Inc. (Lumber) .. .July 25,1918 

*Hamilton A. Higbie Jamaica Treas., Long Island Finance Corporation June 16 1916 

*Robert W. Higbie Jamaica Pres.. Long Island Finance Corporation Charter 

F. J. Hildebrand Ridgewood Pres., Concord Construction Co. (Ornamental 

Iron Work and Forgings) July 25, 1918 

Stuard Hirschman N. Y. City Real Estate Charter 

A. C. Horn L. I. City Treas., Horn Holland Co. (Paints and Var- 
nishes) Oct. 5,1916 

H. J. Houpert L. I. City Pres., Houpert Machine Co Aug. 25, 1919 

*F. Ray Howe N. Y. City Vice-Pres., Queensboro Corp. (Real Estate) .. .June 16,1916 

Stephen J. Huber L. I. City Joseph Huber, Inc. (Commercial Auto Bodies). Feb. 20,1920 

*R. S. Huddleston L. I. City Pres., Astoria Mahogany Co Dec. 16, 1916 

Allen J. Huke N. Y. City Asst. N. Y. Manager Rockland & Rockport 

Lime Co June 24, 1919 

E. Covert Hulst L. I. City Director, First Mortgage Guarantee Co Apr. 9,1913 

Burt Jay Humphrey L. I. City Queens County Judge Charter 

*Richard Fenley Hunter. .. .Flushing Gen'l Mgr., Hunter Illuminated Car Sign Co.. Oct. 8,1915 

S. V. V. Huntington L. I. City Pres.. Edward Smith & Co. (Varnish Makers 

and Color Grinders) Apr. 22, 1920 

William F. Hurley L. I. City Asst. Mgr.. Matheson Lead Co Nov. 25. 1919 

Morris Jacobs .L. I. City Real Estate May 12, 1919 

Percy C. James Jamaica James & Hawkins, Inc. (Hardware, Paint, 

Auto Supplies) Dec. 15,1916 

■*William T. James Flushing Pres. Queens County Savings Bank Oct. 22,1913 

Charles Jensen L. I. City Jensen's Auto Body Works Jan. 12. 1920 

Charles T. Jensen Bayside Sec'y, Queensboro Lumber Co., Inc June 24, 1919 

Allen H. Jeter L. I. City A. H. Jeter & Co., Inc. (Roofing and Sheet 

Metal) Feb. 3,1919 

Wm. H. Johns N. Y. Citv Pres., George Batten Co. (Advertising) Nov. 19, 1915 

E. C. Johnson N. Y. City Gen'l Mgr., Standard Steel Car Co Apr. 22, 1920 

Henry C. Johnson, Jr L. 1. city Real Estate, Appraiser and Auctioneer June 24, 1919 

Remsen Johnson Brooklyn Jere Johnson, Jr., Co. (Real Estate Auctioneer) Sept. 27, 1918 

F. Cliffe Johnston N. Y. City Gen'l Mgr., Palmer Waterfront Land & Im- 

provement Co Sept. 13. 1917 

Henry S. Johnston Elmhurst Pres., H. S. Johnston Drug Co Charter 

William A. Jones, Jr N. Y. City Attorney , .Feb. 16,1912 

John Kaiser L. I. City Supt., Technola Piano Co Apr. 4, 1919 

H. Kaltenhauser L. I. City Pres., National Labeling Machine Co., Inc July 25,1918 

William J. Kam Buffalo (Non-resident member) Jan. 12,, 1920 

H. B. Kanter L. I. City H. P. K. Electric Co. (Industrial Electrical 

Engineers) Apr. 22, 1920 

Charles I. Karasik Elmhurst Business Manager, Ravensvjrood Paper Mill Co. 

(Boxboard and Lining) Apr. 9, 1918 

John Karmazin L. I. City Sec'y and Gen'l Mgr., Waldes & Co.. Inc. 

(Small Metal Goods, Koh-I-Noor Fasteners) . .Feb. 20, 1920 
Leo Karpen N. Y. City Managir.g Director, S. Karpcn & Bros. (Fur- 
niture) Oct. 20,1919 

*Frederick W. Kavanaugh. .N. Y. City Howard Estates Development Co. (Real Es- 
tate) Feb. 10,1915 

Elmer A. Keeler N. Y. City Keeler's Coal Pockets Jan. 4, 1918 

■*Owen A. Keenan L. I. City Local Commercial Mgr., N. Y. Telephone Co. .June 16,1916 

Henry A. Keiner Richmond Hill. .. Pres. Keiner Williams Stamping Co. (Drawn 

and Stamped Sheet Metal) July 25,1918 

Henry P. Keith N. Y. City Attorney Apr. 22, 1920 

Rawdon W. Kellogg Jamaica Attorney June 16, 1915 

Warren Kelly N. Y. City Sec'y-Treas., Jos. P. McHugh & Son (Willow 

Furniture) Nov. 25, 1919 

Robert W. Kemp Woodside Pres.. Holliday Kemp Co., Inc. (Dyes, Aniline 

Colors) Feb. 28,1918 

F. Kempf L. I. City Triangle Service Station ; Apr. 22. 1920 

Howard B. Keppel L. I. City Vice-Pres., Defender Manfg. Co. (Sheets and 

Pillow Cases) May 12,1916 

E. J. Kestenbaum L. I. City Treas., Republic Auto Parts Co June 24, 1919 

John J. Kindred L. I. City Kindred's Sanitarium Oct. 25, 1912 

*Plural Memberships 



New York City 155 

Name Address Business Elected 

*F. \V. Kirch L.I. City Vice-Pres., Astoria Mahogany Co May 21, 1917 

*George M. Kirchmer Brooklyn Claim Agent, Brooklyn Union Gas Co Feb. 11,191. 

*James Klase L. I. City Pres.. Queensboro Storage & Warehouse Corp. .Apr. 22, 1920 

Jack K. Klein L. I. City Klein Bros. (Japanese Bamboo Furniture) ... .Apr. 4,1919 

Jacob Klein L.I. City J. Klein Iron Works Jan. 12,1920 

Joseph J. Kleinhenz L. I. City Pres., Queens Haulage Corp Oct. 20, 1919 

F. J. Kline L. I. City American Clip Co Dec. 6, 1918 

William J Knott N. Y. City : Kew Gardens Hotel June 24, 1919 

W. W. Knowles L. I. City Architect Feb. 20,1920 

Hermann Koch L. I. City Real Estate Apr. 22,1920 

*U S Kolby L. I. City Asst. Sec'y and Asst. Treas., American Ever 

Ready Work Sept. 13, 1917 

Alexander Konta N. Y. City Vice-Pres., Perfect Window Regulator Co Mar. 15,1920 

A. Kornblum N. Y. City Treas.. Allyn Hall Realty Co Nov. 20, 1917 

Alfred Robert Kraeraer. .. . College Point. ... Sec'y & Mgr., Kraemer Bros. (Lumber and 

Masons' Materials) Feb. 20, 1920 

'*V P Krauss L. I. City Supt. and Chemical Engineer, Toch Bros. 

(Paints and Varnishes) June 18, 1918 

•*Louis C. Kunz L. I. City Sec'y-Treas.. The Motometer Co.. Inc May 9,1918 

Walter Kutzleb L. I. City Pres., Organic Salt & Acid Co., Inc. (Drugs 

and Chemicals) Nov. 20, 1917 

L U LaCour L. I. City Pres.. LaCour Iron Works (Structural Steel 

and Iron) July 19, 1917 

Fred J. Lancaster N. Y. City Realty Operator Oct. 25. 1912 

*Wm C Lange College Point Pres. and Gen'l Mgr., Empire Tube & Steel 

Corp Aug. 16, 1916 

LeRoy Latham . .' Brooklyn Pres., Latham Litho. & Printing Co May 12, 1916 

L. Laudisi L. I. City Banker Aug. 25,1919 

"*Williami Law L. I. City John Simmons Co. (Pipe, Iron Fittings, etc.).. Feb. 3,1919 

*Arvine C. Leach L. I. City ...Sec'y, First Mortgage Guarantee Co Nov. 20, 1917 

John Anderson Leach L.I. City -First Deputy Police Commissioner of N. Y. 

City; Attorney Charter 

G. Howland Leavitt Flushing • ■ Charter 

Ernest A. L'Ecluse N. Y. City Sec y-Treas., L Ecluse Washburn & Co. (Real 

Estate) Apr. 9,1918 

-*F. E. Lee Laurel Hill Traffic Mgr.. Nichols Copper Co. (Copper Re- 
fining) June 24, 1919 

A. H. Leipert N. Y. City N. Y. Service Mgr., International Motor Co. 

(Machining, Auto Assembling, etc.) Feb. 20,1920 

Fred C. Lemmerman Glendale Real Estate & Insurance Mar. 15, 1920 

W. H. Lersner College Point Treas.. Chilton Pamt Co Oct. 8, 1915 

H. S. Leverich N. Y. City Real Estate Apr. ;3, 1914 

•*Alfred Levy N. Y. City Traffic Mgr., Toch Bros Oct. 20, 1919 

Adolph Lewisohn N. Y. City Banker Feb. 10, I9l5 

Sam A. Lewisohn N. Y. City Banicer Feb. 10, 1915 

*J. Henry Uenau L. I. City National Sugar Refining Co. of N. J Sept. 27. 1918 

Harvey J^. i^mes Flushing Coal, Wood and Building Maetrials Jan. 4, 1918 

Paul R. Lipman L. I. City Vice-Pres., Greenpoint- -Southern Co. (Mat- 
tresses, Box Springs, Pillows) Nov. 25, 1919 

-*Henry LocKuart. Jr N. Y. City Real Estate, Banker June 20, 1914 

George \V. i^oft N. Y. City Pres,, Loft, Inc. (Confectionery) Feb. 28,1918 

*JacoD L. Loose Kansas City Loose Wiles Biscuit Co Sept. 26, 1913 

*Kennetli U. l^oose L. I. City Asst. Mgr.. Loose Wiles Biscuit Co Sept. 27, 1918 

••^ranK Loru N. Y. City Vice-Pre., Cross & Brown Co. (Real Estate) . .Nov. 19, 1915 

"*J. Willard Lord L. I. City Mgr., Pierce Arrow Service Station Mar. 15, 1920 

C. H. Low. College Point Pre., National Chain Co July 25, 1918 

Albert E Lowe N Y City . . . G. M. Film Corp. (Motion Picture Films), 

Pres.. Municipal Studios Jan. 12,1920 

Fred R. Lowe Jamaica Treas.. Fred Adee Corp. (Plumbing Supplies) . .Feb. 20. 1920 

Clarence M. Lowes Brooklyn Pres.. Flushing National Bank; Treas.. Dime 

Savings Bank of Williamsburg Apr. 9, 1918 

Victor A. Lownes Woodhaven Spear & Co. (Caps and- Hats) Aug. 16,1916 

F. H. Luce Woodhaven Supt., Woodhaven Water Supply Co Apr. 9, 1918 

Clarence A. Ludlum. ..'..'.'. N. Y. Citv Vice-Pres.. The Home Insurance Co Charter 

"*George W. Luft L. I. City Treas., American Druggists' Syndicate Sept. 27, 1918 

K. J. Kundgren'.'. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.".'. Richmond Hill. . . Real Estate Investments Mar. 15, 1920 

Andreas P. Lundin N. Y. City Pres., American Balsa Co Oct. 7,1914 

^D E. INIcAvoy L. I. City. ...... Treas., Wm. D. Bloodgood & Co. (Real Estate) .June 16. 1916 

John's* McCaw! !'.!'.!!'.!!'. L. l'. City. '.'.'.... Sec'y. F. Piel Co., Inc. (Auto Horns) Dec. 6,1918 

Frank B McCord N. Y. City Vice-Pres. & Treas., Post & McCord (Builders) .Feb. 20, 1920 

Alfred E. F. McCorry! '. '. '. '.n'. y! City'. .'. Cantilever Aero Co Apr. 6. 1917 

Georse B. McEwan Corona Corona Lumber Corp Jan. 12, 1920 

Archibald C. McLachlan. . .Jamaica Principal, Jamaica Training School for Teach- 
ers , '. ■.-.... Dec. 15,1916 

*George C. McLoughlin L. I. City ]\IcLoughlin & Helme (Plumbing Contractors) .. Mar. 15,1920 

fl E°. McLoughlin L. I. City Kozak & McLoughlin (Ladies' Shoes) Dec. 15,1916 

'*Edward J. McMahon L. I. City N. Y. National Irving Trust Co.. June 24,1919 

Patrick McMeel N. Y. Citv Vice-Pres., Wm. Hughes & Co., Inc. (Cotton 

and Woolen Waste) Mar. 15, 1920 

Robert W. McMuIlen Brooklyn Life Insurance Nov. 25, 1919 

Dwight MacDonald N. Y. City :\IacDonald & Bostwick (Lawyers) Nov. 13, 1916 

*George C. MacDonald L. I. City Sales Mgr.. Loose Wiles Biscuit Co Aug. 25,1919 

■James A. Macdona'd N. Y. City Trustee Queens County Savings Bank Charter 

■*Edward A. MacDougall N. Y. City Pres., Queensboro Corporation Charter 

J. E. Mace N. Y. City Gen'l Mgr., Menley & James. Ltd. (Import. 

Export and Manufacturing Chemists) . . ; Jan. 12, 1920 

Carleton :Macy Far Rockaway. . . Pres. Queensboro Gas & Elec. Co Mar. 7, 1913 

Jacob Maisel Woodside J. M. Skirt Co Sept. 28, 1918 

-*H. R. Mallinson N. Y. City Pres., H. R. Mallinson & Co. (Silks) Nov. 25, 1919 

D. S. Mallory N. Y. City Asst. Treas.. Dictograph Products Corporation 

(Acousticons, Dictographs) Sept. 27, 1918 

'^'Plural Memberships 



156 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Name Address Business Elected 

Alrick H. Man N. Y. City Pies., Kew Gardens Corp. (Real Estate) Charter 

Ellery W. Mann Rockaway Park. . Vice-Pres., H. K. McCann Co. (Advertising) .. Mar. 15.1920 

*C A. Marston L. I. City Factory Mgr., American Ever Ready Works. . . .Mar. 15, 1920 

Franklin J. Mason L. I. City Contractor Apr. 4, 1919 

*J. S. Masterman N. Y. City Printing Mgr., Metropolitan Life Ins. Co Oct. 20, 1919 

*A f' Mathews L. I. City Mathews INIodel Flats Co., Inc. (Real Estate and 

Builder) Apr. 13, 1914 

Ernest Mathews L. I. City Mathews Building Co Jan. 26, 1917 

*G X. Mathews L. I. City Mathews Model Flats Co., Inc. (Real Estate 

and Builder) Apr. 13, 1914 

*Carl C. Mattman, Jr L. I. City Asst. Supt. and Pur. Agt., Astoria Silk Works. Nov. 25. 1919 

*Charles Mattman L. I. City Treas., Astoria Silk Works Apr. 6, 1917 

*Theo. Thos. Mattman L. I. City Astoria Silk Works Nov. 25, 1919 

C. B. Mayer L. I. City C. B. Mayer Co. (Interior Woodwork) Feb. 20, 1920 

Edward W. Merrill, Jr Maspeth Pres. Merrill Bros., Inc Jan. 4, 1918 

Henry Mayer L. I. City Vice-Pres., Niagara Knitting Mills Corp Feb. 20, 1920 

*Martin A. Metzner L.I. City Young & Metzner (Bags and Bagging) Dec. 19,1913 

Herbert Mead, Jr L. I. City Sec'y-Treas., Indiana Quartered Oak Co Apr. 22, 1920 

Jacob Meurer L. I. City Pres.. Meurer Steel Barrel Co Sept. 27, I9l8 

*Charles G. Meyer N. Y. City Sec'y, Cord Meyer Development Co. (Real 

Estate) Charter 

Frank Meyer N. Y. City Asst. Sec'y> Famous Players-Lasky Corp. (Mo- 
tion Pictures) June 24, 1919 

*George C. Meyer Forest Hills Cord Meyer Development Co Oct. S, 1916 

Henry W. Meyer Ridgewood Pres., Ivanhoe Co. (Builder and Real Estate) . .Apr. 6,1917 

Willard F. Meyers L. I. City Pres., Willard F. Meyers Machine Co., Inc Feb. 28. 1918 

*William S. Milan L. I. City Mgr., Bank of the Manhattan Co Feb. 28, 1918 

C. C. Miller Brooklyn Eclipse Box & Lumber Co Mar. 8, 1917 

Julius Miller L. I. City Julius Miller Shoe Co Apr. 22. 1920 

C. C. Mollenhauer Brooklyn Real Estate June 10, 1914 

Benjamin Moore L. I. City Moore's Bakery; Vice-Pres., L. I. City Sav- 
ings Bank July 25, 1918 

Robert E. Moore L. I. City Austin & Moore, Inc. (Electrical and Indus- 
trial Engineers) Oct. 20, 1919 

William H. Moore N. Y. City N. Y. Mgr., The White Co. (Motor Trucks) . . .Aug. 25, 1919 

David G. Morrison L. I. City Director, L. I. City Savings Bank Sept. 27, 1918 

Thomas Morrison, Jr L. I. City Mgr., Acorn Silk Co May 9, I9l8 

A. W. Morse L I. City . .Vice-Pres., The Anthony Co. (Liquid Fuel 

Engineers) Feb. 28, 1918 

George H. Mullen Far Rockaway. .. Pres., Mullen & Buckley, Inc. (Window 

Screens) Sept. 27, 1918 

Henry J. Mullen Jamaica Pres., H. J. Mullen Contracting Co., Inc Apr. 12. 1912 

KearnJ. Mullen N. Y. City U. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co May 12, 1919 

J. P. MuUer N Y. City Pres., J. P. Muller & Co. (Advertising) July 19, I9l7 

Roswell F. Mundy N. Y. City treas., L. I. City Realty Co Jan. 26, 1917 

William P. Myers L. I. City Manhattan-Rome Co. (Metal Beds and Couches)Aug. 16. 1916 

Alfred Nathan Flushing Pres., Nathan Mfg. Co. (Steam Injectors and 

Locomotive Appliances) May 12, 1916 

H. V. H. Neefus N Y City.. . Francisco & Jacobus (Engineers and Archi- 
tects) Feb. 20, 1920 

Nicholas "Nehrbauer L. I. City Plumbing Contractor Nov. 25, 1919 

C. A. Neidig Blissville .. Supt., American Agricultural Chemical Works 

(Preston Works) Jan. 12,1920 

Archibald Nesbett Bayside Contractor Aug. 16, 1916 

Isaac Neuschotz N. Y. City Pres., Fritsch Toilet Mirror Co Jan. 12, 1920 

Richards. Newcombs N. Y. City Pressinger & Newcombe (Lawyers) Sept. 13, 1917 

Harvey B. Nevins N. Y. City Harvey B. Newins, Inc. (Real Estate) May 12.1919 

R. H. Nimmich Winfield Pres., Shoreham Novelty Co May 9,1918 

*W. M. Nones L. I. City Pres. and Treas., Norma Co. of America (Ball 

Bearings) June 16, 1916 

C. G. Norman Winfield Pres., Norman-Seton, Inc. (Metal Doors and 

Fireproofing) Sept. 21, 1915 

*Myer Nussbaum N. Y. City Treas., Howard Estates Development Co. (Real 

Estate) ; Attorney June 16, 1916 

•Francis J. Oakes. Jr Boston Vice-Pres., Oakes Mfg. Co. (Drugs. Chemicals, 

Dyes) Sept. 13, 1917 

George M. O'Connor L. I. City Plumbing and Heating Contractor May 9, 1918 

•M. O'Malley L. I. City Supt., Metropolitan' Life Insurance Co Aug. 16,1916 

Jos. R. Oppenheimer L. I. City Sec'y, West Disinfecting Co Nov. 19, 1915 

W. E. Orr L. I. City Pres., C. A. Willey Co. (Varnish and Paint) . . .Feb. 3, 13'19 

Eugene J. Orsenigo L. I. City Orsenigo Co., Inc. (Furniture) Nov. 13, 1916 

Frank O'Sullivan Garden City Purchasing Agent. Doubleday, Page Co. (Book 

Publishers Aug. 25, 1919 

*Ray Palmer L. I. City Pres.. New York & Queens Electric Light & 

Power Co Nov. 19, 1916 

John W. Paris N. Y. City Pres., Paris-Hecken Co. (Real Estate) Feb. 28,1918 

F. James Parks N. Y. City Treas., Self Clasp Envelope Co Apr. 22, 1920 

William Bowne Parsons N. Y. City Attorney Nov. 13, 1916 

Eugene Pauly N. Y. City Commission Merchant Feb. 16, 1916 

Jerome Payet L. I. City Pres., Payet Silk Dyeing Corp Oct. 20, 1919 

Jos. J. Paymer L. I. City Central Smelting & Refining Co July 25. 1918 

Alvan T. Payne L. I. City Attorney June 2,1911 

Napoleon Pelletier Maspeth Pelletier Can Co June 18. 1918 

»John H. Penchoen L. I. City Mgr.. Title Guarantee & Trust Co June 18, 1918 

John Moore Perry Elmhurst Farmer May 12,1919 

A. N. Peterson L. I. City Pres., Brooklyn Foundry Co Apr. 9,1918 

John W. Petry L. I. City Pres.. John W. Retry Co. (Plumbing, Heating 

and Ventilating) Nov. 25, 1919 

Franklin Pettit N. Y. City Real Estate Feb. 3.1919 

Jacob Pfeffer L. I. City Coal, Wood and Building Materials Apr. 9, 1918 

C. J. Phillips N. Y. City Asst. Gen'l Mgr., Brooklyn Eastern District 

Terminal Jan. 12.1920 

^Plural Memberships 



New York City 157 

Name Address Business Elected 

John Polachek L. I. City Pres., John Polachek Bronze & Iron Co July 25, 1918 

W. A. Porter Maspeth Pres., United Button Co Nov. 20, 1917 

*James H. Post N. Y. City Pres., National Sugar Refining Co. of N. J Feb. 20,1920 

Paul Leon Price L. I. City Mgr., Irving Iron Works Oct. 5. 1916 

Leo Propper L. I. City Propper Silk Hosiery Co. (Silk Hosiery) Feb. 20, 1920 

Thomas F. Purcell L. I. City Surety Bonds Feb. 28, 1918 

*F. A. Purdy L. I. City Sec'y, Repetti, Inc. (Candy) Apr. 22,1^20 

W. S. Quigley N. Y. City '. Pres., Quigley Furnace Specialties Co June 18, 1918 

Edward A. Quin. . N. Y. City N. Y. Mgr., J. L. Mott Iron Works Feb. 20, 1920 

*D. W. Quinn, Jr Jamaica Vice-Pres., American Trust Co Feb. 3,1919 

Thomas M. Quinn L. I. City Undertaker Apr. 4,1919 

John T. Rainier Flushing Pres., Rainier Motor Corp Dec. 15, 1916 

"*Fred G. Randall L. I. City Vice-Pres., Queensboro Corporation Charter 

John A. Rapelye Elmhurst Real Estate Feb. 20, 1920 

*John W. Rapp College Point. ... Pres., Empire Art Metal Co. (Metal Works, 

Fireproofing) June 2,1911 

^Justin J. Rathjen L. I. City ...Pres.. Jurgen Rathjen Coal Co Oct. 5,1916 

Arthur L. Reed Richmond Hill. .. Pres., A. L. Reed Co. (Leather Goods) Feb. 16,1916 

F. H. Reeve N. Y. City Real Estate Mar. 7,1917 

Jacob Reichert Brooklyn Reichert Towing Line May 21, 1917 

William C. Reid Greenpoint Leary & Co. (Lumber Merchants) June 16, 1915 

James J. Reilly L. I. City Real Estate Broker Apr. 22, 1920 

John B. Reimer Ozone Park Pres., First National Bank of Ozone Park (Coal 

and Building Supplies) May 21,1917 

John H. Rhodes L. I. City Victory Warehouse Corp (Cartage and Light- 
erage Facilities) Nov. 21, 1917 

Sol Richman Laurel Hill Supt., National Enameling and Stamping (io..Oct. 25,1912 

♦Charles H. Rickert N. Y. City Vice-Pres., Rickert Realty Co., Inc June 19, 1913 

*E. J. Rickert N. Y. City Pres., Rickert Realty Co., Inc June 2,1911 

*A. B. Ricketts L. I. City Factory Mgr., Neptune Meter Co Jan. 26, 1917 

W. N. Ridge N. Y. City Pres., Metropolis Land Co Nov. 19, 1915 

John M. Riehle N. Y. City Pres., L. I. Sound Realty Co Feb. 16, 1916 

Walter F. Ring Brooklyn Pres., Ring Gibson Co. (Builders) Feb. 19, 1915 

Harry D. Robbins N. Y. City Pres., H. D. Robbins Co. (Investment Bankers) .June 18, WIS 

Walter Roberts L. I. City Mgr., William Bradley & Son (Cut Stone and 

Marble) Apr. 12, 1912 

*J. H. Robinson N. Y. City Cross & Brown Co. (Real Estate) Oct. 20, 1919 

Edward Roche Far Rockavvay . . . Roche's Baths June 6, 1912 

Mathew Rock N. Y. City Merchant Tailor Oct. 8, 191S 

Clinton T. Roe N. Y. City Sec'y, L. I. Bond & Mortgage Co.; Attorney. .Charter 

Edwin P. Roe Whitestone Pres., First National Bank of Whitestone June 24,1919 

Fred Roffe L. I. City Treas., Kelly & Kelley (Engineers) Feb. 3,1919 

Charles A. Rohr N. Y. City Commercial Engineers (General Electric Co.).. Feb. 20,1920 

Joseph M. Roman L. I. City Roman-Callman Co. (Real Estate) Nov. 20, 1917 

Emanuele Ronzoni L. I. City Pres. -Treas., Ronzoni Macaroni Co., Inc Oct. 20,1919 

Morris Rosenwasser L. I. City Pres., Rosenwasser Bros. (Leggings and Boots) .Dec. 9,1914 

*P. A. Rowley Jamaica Vice-Pres., Bank of the Manhattan Company. . . Nov. 19, 1915 

Emil Runge Flushing Real Estate May 12,1919 

Frederick Russell L. I. City Pres.,. Russell Foundry & Machine Co Charter 

H. E. Russell L. I. City Supt., Reichard-Coulston Co Feb. 28,1918 

Edward Ruth, Jr Winfield Real Estate and Insurance July 19,1917 

George J. Ryan L. I. City Real Estate and Insurance Feb. 16, 1912 

A. M. Ryon Flushing Coal and Mason Supplies Apr. 10,1916 

Samuel Salvage N. Y. City Manufacturer Artificial Silk Yarn July 25,1918 

Harry D. Sammis N. Y. City Asst. Sec'y, Farmers' Loan & Trust Co Apr. 6, 1917 

D. M. Sarkisian N. Y. City Pres., Gould Mersereau Co. (Drapery, Carpet 

and Cabinet Hardware) Oct. 20, 1919 

Sol Schildkraut Jamaica Jamaica Auto & Supply Co. (Autos and Ac- 
cessories) Apr. 9, 1918 

Gustave Schirmer N. Y. City G. Schirmer, Inc. (Music Publishers) Nov. 19, 1915 

F. J. Schleicher L. I. City Sec'y, W. D. Wilson Printing Ink Co., Ltd Apr. 4, 1919 

Louis Schlesinger N. Y. City Louis Schlesinger, Inc. (Real Estate) Apr. 22,1920 

Carl 'Schneeweiss L. I. City Mgr., George Brown & Co. (Cut Stone) Feb. 20, 1920 

Eugene Schoen Newark Gen. Mgr., International Oxygen Co Oct. 7, 1914 

John G. Schumacher Flushing Farmer Oct. 8, 1915 

♦Alfred B. Schupp L.I. City Supt., Motometer Co., Inc May 9,1918 

Henry T. Schwanda Winfield Mgr., B. Schwanda & Son (Pearl Buttons) July 19,1917 

Felix Schwemer College Point. ... Pres., Atlantic Rubber Manufacturing Corp... June 14.1914 

Melvin W. Scott L. I. City Factory Mgr.. R. & L. Bearings Co Feb. 20, 1920 

Maurice Seiderman L. I. City Pres., Star Silk Works Jan. 12, 1920 

*Louis J. Selznick N. Y. City. ...... Pres., Select Pictures Corp. ; Treas., Selznick 

Pictures Corp Oct. 20, 1919 

*Myron Selznick W. Fort Lee Pres., Selznick Pictures Corporation Oct. 20,1919 

*Otto Sepp L. I. City A. & P. Motor- Trucking Corp.; Queensboro 

Warehouse Corp Oct. 20, 1919 

Ernest Sexauer L. I. Citv Treas., Sexauer & Lemke, Inc. (Structural 

Iron and Steel) Jan. 26,1917 

♦Charles W. Shaeffer L. I. City Supt., Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. (Devoe 

Works) Apr. 4,1919 

♦William Shaw.... L. I. City Supt., Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. (Empire 

Yard) Apr. 4,1919 

J. C. Sheaff N. Y. City Mgr.. Patterson Sargent Co. (Paints and Var- 
nish) Sept. 27, 1918 

C. E. Sheppard N. Y. City C. E. Sheppard Co. (Book Binders) Apr. 22,1920 

♦Johnson Shipman L. I. City Purchasing Agt., Neptune Meter Co. (Water 

Meters) Jan. 26,1917 

Edwin Shuttleworth L. I. City.. Pres., Edwin Shuttleworth (Cut Stone and 

Marble) July 25, 1918 

Bohumil W. Sidlo L. I. City Pres., Voska, Foelsch & ,Sidlo, Inc. (Interior 

Marble) . June 18, 1918 

♦Philip L. Sillman L. I. City Astoria Mahogany Co Sept. 13, 1917 

"^'Plural Memberships 



158 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

Name Address Business Elected 

•Charles R. Silvernail L. I. City Mgr., Queensboro Storage & Warehouse Corp.. Apr. 22,1920 

•Joseph I. Simmons N. Y. City Sec'y. John' Simmons Co. (Pipe, Iron Fittings, 

etc.) Nov. 25, 1919 

Charles Simonson Elmhurst Real Estate Feb. 16, 1912 

*Carl Skog L. I. City Asst. Sec'y- Queensboro Corp. (Real Estate) . .Aug. 16,1916- 

*Charles W. Smith L. I. City Traffic Mgr., Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co Sept 27,1918 

*Charles W. Smith L.I. City Supt., Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. (Pratt 

Works) Apr. 4,1919 

*Ed\vard M. Smith Elmhurst Mgr., Newtown Gas Co Sept. 27, 1918- 

Frank R. Smith Jamaica Coal, Wood and Mason Supplies Apr. 8,1917 

L. C. L. Smith L. I. City Consulting Engineer Apr. 10, 1916 

*Leroy L. Smith L. I. City Editor, L. I. Star Publishing Co Nov. 19, 191S 

Morrell Smith .^Far Rockaway. . . Architect Aug. 25, 1919- 

Peter H. Smith ."L. I. City Manufacturer Women's Clothing Mar. 15. 1920- 

*Samuel R. Smith Jamaica Bank of the Manhattan Company Sept. 27, 1918 

*Valentine W. Smith Far Rockaway ... Vice-Pres., Bank of the Manhattan Co Sept. 27, 1918 

•Walter S. Smith N. Y. City Vice-Prcs., Red Star Towing & Transporta- 
tion Co.) May 12, 1919" 

*H. L. Snyder L.I. City Treas., N. Y. & Queens Electric Light & 

Power Co.) June 16, 1916- 

Harry J. Sohmer L.I. City Sohmer Piano Co Oct. 7,1914- 

George Solms Richmond Hill. .. Pres.. Richmond Hill National Bank May 9.1918 

Frederick A. Sondheimer. . .L. I. City Black Bear Co. (Oils and Factory Supplies) .. .May 9, 1918 

Charles M. Sorenson N. Y. City Pres.. Charles Sorensen Co.. Inc Apr. 22, 1920 

Maynard H. Spear Flushing Vice-Pres., N. Y. & Queens Gas Co Jan. 12, 1916- 

A. W. Spence N. Y. City Treas., Harrolds Motor Car Co. (Pierce Arrow 

Service Station) Apr. 9, 1918 

G. J. Staats N. Y. City Plumbing and Heating Contractor Feb. 16, 1912 

Mathew J. Stacom L. I. City Pres., Island Lumber Co., Inc Apr. 22. 1920 

George Stanley Roslyn Pres., N. Y. & North Shore Traction Corp Mar. IS, 1920 

James C. Stansbury Jamaica Jas. H. Stansbury, Inc. (Lumber and Coal) . . . .Apr. 4, 1919 

Charles Steiner L. I. City Sales Mgr., Steiner Mfg. Co (Automotive Sup- 
plies) Feb. 20, 1920 

•Theodore Stein way N. Y. City Steinway & Sons (Pianos) Charter 

George J. Stelz College Point Gen. Mgr. and Treas., College Point Boat Corp. Jan. 12, 1920 

Chester G. Stewart Brooklyn Mgr., M. Goodwin & Co. (Lumber) Jan. 12,1920 

•Isaac R. Stewart Brooklyn Pres., Anchor Cap & Closure Corp Mar. 15,1920 

Frederick Storm Bavside First National Bank Dec. 19,1913 

Elmer G. Story Bayside Pres., First National Bank Oct. 20, 1919' 

Charles L. Strattard Flushing Staunchwood Shops (Toys) Jan. 12,1920 

Henry F. Strebel Brooklyn Chas. Strebel & Sons (Structural Steel and 

Iron) Jan. 4,1918 

Frank L. Stiles Jamaica :Mgr., N. Y. Title & Mortgage Co Mar. 15, 1920 

G. L. Stuebner L. I. City G.. L. Stuebner Iron Works (Structural Steel 

and Iron) Sept. 13, 1917 

•H. E. Sturcke L. I. City Treas., General Carbonic Co Nov. 25, 1919 

Jacob Sulzbach College Point Pres., N. Y. Watering Co. (Silk Ribbons) Apr. 13. 1914 

Benjamin H. Sweet Tamaica Real Estate Feb. 11 1915 

T. B. Swennes L.I. City Supt., Texas Co. (Oils) Feb. 20,1920 

Seymour Taft L. I. City Taft's Citv Garage (Autos and Accessories) ... .Apr. 9,1918 

E. J. Tarof N. Y. City Traffic Mgr.. Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. 

i F (Billiard Tables, Bowling Alleys and Phono- 
graphs) Sept. 13, 1917 

Martin Tepper L. I. City Pres., Heatless Dental Wheel Co. (Dental Ap- 
pliances) July 25, 1918 

Ira L. Terry. Flushing Real Estate Apr. 4, 1919 

•Charles G. M. Thomas N. Y. City Vice-Pres.. Consolidated Gas. Co. of N. Y.; 

Chairman. Board of Directors N. Y. & 

Queens Electric Light & Power Co Charter 

John W. Thomas N. Y. City Gen'l Agt., Travelers' Insurance Co Apr. 10,1916 

Wm. H. Thompson L. I. City Real Estate May 9, 1918 

Ralph M. Thomson N. Y. City John Thomson Press Co. (Machinery) Feb. 3. 1919 

*W. D. Ticknor N. Y. City Goodrich-Lockhart Co. (Real Estate) July 25,1918 

Bernard \A'. Timoney L. I. 'City Architect and Builder Apr. 4, 1919 

Josiah B. Tisdale L. I. City Tisdale Lumber Co. (Lumber, Coal. Wood) Tan. 12,1916 

•Henry M. Toch N. Y. City Toch Bros. (Paint, Varnish and Chemicals) ... Mar. 7, r913 

C. R. Tock L. I. City Pres., Tock Screw Machine Products Corp Sept. 27, 1918 

Thomas H. Todd N. Y. City Real Estate June 24, 1919 

L. J. Towneley L. I. City Mgr., Metropolitan District.' National Casket Co. 

(Caskets and Undertakers' Supplies) Apr. 4,1919 

George H. Townsend L. I. City ^^otometer Co.. Inc Apr. 22, 1919 

Benjamin D. Traitel L. I. City Pres.. Traitel Marble Co. (Mosaic, Tile Mar- 
ble Works) Nov. 19, 1918 

William C. Van Brunt L. I. City Pres., William C. Van Brunt, Inc. (Structural 

Steel and Iron) Nov. 25, 1919 

•John Cornelius Vander Pyl . College Point. ... Personnel Supervisor, American Hard Rubber 

Co Sept. 27, 1918 

•Benjamin C. Vanderwater. .L. I. City ]\Isrr., Corn Exchange Bank (Queens County 

Branch) Dec. 20,1912 

D. A. Van Derwerken Corona Tiffany Studios (Architectural Iron and Bronze, 

Lighting Fixtures) May 21. 1917 

Theodore J. Van Horen. . . .Brooklyn Pres., Tamaica Property Corporation Nov. 25, 1919 

Garrett M. Van Siclen Tamaica Coal aiid Wood Mar. 22. 1918 

Pele'- Van Siclen Jamaica Farmer Feb. 10,1915 

Paul L. Veeder L. I. City Sec'y-Treas., Boyce-Veeder Corp. (Fire Ex- 
tinguishers) Apr. 22, 1920 

L. J. Viehmann L. I. City Pres. and Treas. J. Chas. Teepe, Inc. (Wood- 

enware and Cabinet Work for Household Use) .May 9, 1918 

•August Vogel L. I. City Pres.. Imperial Paint Co .Oct. 5, 1916 

*F. A. Von Moschzisker. . . .N. Y. City Agent Real Estate Dept., Pennsylvania Rail- 
road Co.) June 16, 1915 

^Plural Memberships 



New York City 



159 



Maine 
^Edwin S. Votey 



A. W. Walch 

R. O. Walker 

N. A. Wallace 

*J. J. Walsh 

R. Randel Wangeman. 
Frederick H. Wappler. 

Fred A. Wasserman.. 

F. J. Weber 

Richmond Weed 

*William W. Weitling. 
J. J. Wesley 



Charles M. White. 



Address Business Elected 

L. I. City Vice-Pres. and Gen'l Mgr., Aeolian Co. (Pianos, 

Victrolas and Musical Instruments) Mar. 8, 1917 

...L. I. City Sec'y, L. I. City Industrial Branch, Y.M. C.A.Feb. 3.1919 

. . . L. I. City Thibaut & Walker Co. (Varnishes) Nov. 25,1919 

. . .L. I. City Mgr.. La France Soap & Perfume Co Mar. IS, 1920 

. . .Laurel Hill Personnel Mgr., Nichols Copper Co June 24, 1919 

...L. I. City Ten Eyck & Wangeman Dec. 6, 1918 

...L. I. City Treas.. Wappler Electric Co. (Electric and 

X-Ray Apparatus) Aug. 25, 1919 

...Whitestone Treas., Elandes Ribbon Co., Inc. (Silk Ribbon) .July 25, 1918 

. . .Jamaica Photographer Apr. 22, 1920 

. . . N. Y. City Attorney Charter 

.. .College Point Treas., American Hard Rubber Co Oct. 22,1913 

...L. I. City IMetropolitan Electric Mfg. Co. (Electrical Spe- 
cialties) July 25, 1918 

...Jamaica ^Igr. and Treas., Paragon Plaster Co. (Wall 

Plaster) Aug. 25,1919 

...L. I. City Mgr., Plaza Branch. Corn Exchange Bank Feb. 20,1920 

...L. I. City Pres., Columbia Paper Bag Co Tan. 12.1916 

...Glendale Pres., William Wicke Ribbon Co julv 25,1918 

. . . N. Y. City Investments June 2, 1911 

...N. Y. City Zeese Wilkinson Co. (Color Plates, Engraving, 

etc.) Dec. 6,1918 

...L. I. City Vice-Pres., Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co Apr. 10.1916 

. . . L. I. City Sec'y. Columbia Paper Bag Co Feb. 3, 1919 

. . .L. I. City Chairman of Board, Astoria Mahogany Co Charter 

...L. I. City Attorney; Pres., First ^Mortgage Guarantee Co.. Charter 

. . . L. I. City Vice-Pres.. Astoria Mahogany Co Nov. 13, 1916 

. . .Brooklyn Brooklyn Rapid Transit Co June 19, 1913 

. . .N. Y. City Banker ; . .Charter 

. . .N. Y. City Gen'l Freight Agt., Long Island Railroad Oct. 5, 1516 

...L. I. City Vice-Pres., Norma Co. of America (Ball Bear- 
ings) Feb. 20, 1920 

...Jamaica Mgr., Queens County Branch, Title Guarantee 

& Trust Co June 19, 1913 

.. .L. I. City Pres., N. Y. & Queens Co. Railway Co Oct. 7, 1914 

. . .N. Y. City Gen'l Passenger Agt., L. I. Railroad Apr. 9. 1920 

. . .Jamaica Mgr., Title Guarantee & Trust Co Apr. 13, 1914 

...L. I. City C. Curtis Woodruff & Co. (Builders and Con- 
tractors) Aug. 16, 1916 

Walter Burnett Woodruff.. L. I. City Treas., John T. Woodruff & Son (Builders) .. .Jan. 26, 1917 

George E. Woods L. I. City Astoria Lieht. Heat & Power Co Nov. 3, l5ll 

Frederic E. Wright L. I. City Pres., Weldrite Co., Inc Apr. 22,1920 

•I. H. Wright Jamaica Mgr., N. Y. Telephone Co June 16. f916 

Frank W. Yager Flushing Yager & Wagner (Coal, Wood, Masons' Sup- 
plies) ■ Jan.. 4,1918 

William T. Yale Jamaica Vice-Pres., Yale Land Co IDec. 8,1911 

H. YelHn College Point Eureka Rubber Co Jan. 12, 1920 

*Nicholas P. Young L. I. City Young & !Metzner (Bags and Bagging) Dec. 19,1916 

C. J. Zimmerman N. Y. City Pres., Carbola Chemical Co Aug. 25, 1919 

*Plural Memberships 



*Herbert F. White. . 
*H. Winslow White. 

George H. Wicke . . 

J. A. Wigmore. . . . 

W. J. Wilkinson... 



*George H. Willcockson 
*Morris L. Willets. . . . 

*Alex. S. Williams 

*H. Pushae Williams.. 
*Remsen T. Williams. 

Timothy S. Williams. 

W. H. Williams 

*Donald Wilson 

*Odbert P. Wilson 

*Wilbur C. Witherstine 

William O. Wood 

*P. H. Woodward 

*Ray P. Woodin 

C. Curtis Woodruff. . . 



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That the Queensboro Chamber of Commerce is keeping pace with the won- 
derful industrial, commercial, financial and residential growth of the Borough, 
can be readily seen by this chart indicating an increase from 55 charter members 
in 1911 to 625 members in April 1920. 

While our goal for this this year is 800 members, it is evident that at the 
present rate of growth the membership will soon be numbered bv the thousands. 



New York City 



161 




For Every 

Food Occasion 

tKere is a SUNSHINE BISCUIT to do its full 
sKare in making tkat occasion a success. 

For example. ''Tak-kom-a Biscuit" is 
supreme for Sandwickes — ''Splits-in-two — no 
crumbs — an exclusive feature. 

SUNSHINE BISCUITS are baked in 
Queens at tlie Wonder Bakery witk tLe 
Thousand Windows. 

JOpSE-'^ILES giSCUlT (ipMPANY 

Branches in over 100 Cities. 

Bakers of 




162 



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THE LYON SPRING BUMPER 

THE BEST SELLING AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORY IN THE UNITED STATES 
OVER 1,000,003 SOLD ANNUALLY 




WHEN YOUR CAR IS EQUIPPED WITH LYON BUMPERS YOU ARE 
ALLOWED 15% ON COLLISION INSURANCE. 

Manufactured Exclusively By 



METAL STAMPING COMPANY 



JOHN F. GALVIN, President 



LONG ISLAND CITY 



TelepKone 9^ Astoria EstatlisKecl 1860 


JOHN T.WOODItUrFS SON 


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BUILDERS 

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1 Bridge Plaza 
WALTER B. WOODRUFF Long Island City 



New York City 163 



Meeting Conditions 

Our two nunarea million dollars oi resources are 
adequate to deal with the largest financial enter- 
prises. 

We place no limit on our service witnm the bounds 
OI sound banking. 

Whatever our customers demand of us in the way 
of modern banking service, we are prepared to give 
willingly, definitely and with the efficiency and 
dispatch of a fully equipped, well balanced organ- 
ization. 

The growth of our customers' business finds us 
ready and w^aiting to fill their larger needs. 

Come in and let us help you with your problems. 

BANK OF THE MANHAHAII COMPANY 

CHARTERED 1799 
40 Wall Street 31 Union Square 

Richmond Hill Jamaica Long Island City 

Woodliaven Far Rockaway Fluslimg 

Ridgewood Rockaway BeacK Corona 

Fresh Pond Seaside ' College Point 

Elmnurst 

BANK OF LONG ISLAND SAFE DEPOSIT COMPANY 
AT QUEENS OFFICES 



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jHortgage %om^ 



FlltSTii MOIITGAGE GUARAIITEE COWM 

{First Mortgage Guarantee Company Building) 

15 BRIDGE PLAZA NORTH 
LONG ISLAND CITY, BOROUGH OF QUEENS, CITY OF NEW YORK 



First Mortgages and Mortgage Certificates Guaranteed 
as to Principal and Interest Netting 53^% to purchaser 



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125 ACRES WITH 
WATER FRONT 

DEEP WATER AT BULKHEAD LINE 
CONVENIENT TO TROLLEY LINES 
FIVE CENT FARE TO NEW YORK CITY 



SUITABLE FOR 
HOME DEVELOPMENT. MOVING PICTURE 
PURPOSES. OR LARGE MANUFACTURING PLANT 

KOUWENHOVEN [STATES, |NG. 

15 BRIDGE PLAZA 
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 

TELEPHONE ASTORIA 1874-5 



IRVING 

FOR 

ANCHORS 

MISC. IRON & STEEL 
FORCINGS 



PATENTED 



IRVING SUBWAY 



NOV. 26. 1912 



VENTILATED FLOORING 
AND 

PATENTED TRADE 

IRVING SAFSTEP 

MARK 

Catalogs 2A63 and 2CI 

IRVING IRON WORKS CO. 

LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. 



New York City 165 



/7aeAsonJ{eigfArs 

yr PLAN OF 
(/TENANT- OWNERSHIP 

OF GARDEN APARTMENTS 

IS THE IDEAL APARTMENT 
HOME OWNERSHIP PLAN 

Jackson HeigKts is tke ideal place to live, witn its 
Tennis, GoU and otner outdoor amusements, and 
its vigorous Community Life. 

Jackson HeigKts is only 20 minutes by Rapid 
Transit from mid town Manhattan. 

To reack Jackson Heights : Take the Queensboro 
Subway at 42nd Street Subway Station (Corona Line ) 
direct to 25th St. station. 

THE 
QUEENSBORO CORPORATION 

Jackson HeigKts Office ManKattan Office 

pposite 25th St. Subway Station 50 E. 42cl St., Cor. Madison Ave. 
Telephone Newtown 2361 TelepKone Murray Hill 7057 

Long Island City Bridge Plaza North 

TelepKone Astoria 801 



166 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



VISIT tke most rapidly developing section of Greater 
New York and see some of our attractive residences 
and factory sites. Transportation and skippingf 
ideal. A little time spent in investigating this section will 
be time well spent. My oidce is at your service. 



GEORGE J. RYAN 

Real Estate, Jv^ortgage Loans and Insurance 
46 JACKSON AVENUE, (Near 4th Street) 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 

Telephones 3451 and 3452 Hunters Point 

APPRAISER OF REAL ESTATE 



250 ACHES ON FLUSHING BAY-HSTRIVa 

4000 FEET OF DEEP WATER FRONT 
7}4 MILES FROM HERALD SQUARE 

IDEAL FOR LARGE MANUFACTURING PLANTS 

Long Island—Pennsylvania R. R. and N. Y. & Queens Trolley pass through the 

property. 5 cent fare to heart of N. Y. City. 

Labor in this section, in fact throughout Queens, has not joined in making 
such abnormal demands as have been made in other sections of the country 
where munitions were manufactured. The greater number of industrial workers 
own their own homes and are not affected by the unusually high living costs 
prevailing in other localities. Existing homes, and plans for further and quick 
housing, assure the same conditions in the future. 

CONVINCING PROOF — Following companies with thousands of employees 
immediately surround this property: American Hard Rubber Company, Nathan 
Manufacturing Co., Empire Art Metal Co., Inc., Kleinert Rubber Co., L. W. F. 
Engineering Co., Rainier Motor Truck Co., Chilton Paint Works, College Point 
Boat Corp., Hunter Illuminating Sign Co., National Chain Co., International 
Oxygen Co., Red Star Shipbuilding Corp., Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co., S. W. 
Rubber Co., The Master Machine Works, and others. 

Population of 50,000 — Flushing, College Point, Whitestone — all within 2 miles. 

For full information inquire 

JOHN W . R A P P 

EMPIRE BUILDING COLLEGE POINT, LONG ISLAND 

2nd Ave., and 9th Street Telephone 1000 Flushing 



New York City 



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tifje Corn Cxcfjange 



N E W YORK 

Established 1853 

BEAVER AND WILLIAM STREETS 

•^ 

Member of 
Federal Reserve System and of New York Clearing House 

Capital and Surplus, $12,000,000 
Net Deposits, $150,000,000 

The Trust Department acts as Executor, Trustee, 
Administrator, Guardian, Agent and Depository 
of Securities. 

•^ 
FORTY-THREE BRANCHES IN GREATER NEW YORK 



BRANCHES LOCATED IN QUEENS BOROUGH 



Astoria Branck 

75 FULTON AVENUE, ASTORIA 



Plaza Branch 



BRIDGE PLAZA AND ACADEMY STREET 



Steinway Ave. Brancli 

252 STEINWAY AVENUE 



Flusking Brancli 

116 MAIN STREET. FLUSHING 



Queens Co. Branck 

JACKSON AVENUE AND 4TH STREET 



Accounts Respectfully Solicited 



168 



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Wkat About a Trustee 
For Your Estate? 

By making the American Trust Company Trustee, 
experts w^no tnorougnly understand local conditions 
w^iU supervise and conserve the principal as well as 
see to it that the income is promptly paid to the 
legatees. 

Our Bank is ready to meet your every need, and our 
officers are always at the service of the busy man, or 
woman, w^ho desires advice. 

The American Trust Company 



Bridge Plaza North, 



Long Island City 



In Jamaica : 375 Fulton Street 

In Brooklyn: 203 Montague Street 

In Manhattan : 135 Broadway 



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THE • L- W- F • EN'SINEERIN'^ COMPANY, IN^ . 

COLUE.GE. POINT, NEW YORK 



New York City 



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I 



GREENWAY TERRACES AND FOREST HILJ.1S IXN. 

Iforest 1bill6 (Sarbcns 

is the property of the Sage Foundation Homes Company and is recog- 
nized to be the most comprehensive accompHshment in garden city or 
model town planning yet undertaken in America. 

Lest confusion and an indefinite impression exist as to just what 
Forest Hills Gardens is and represents, and in order to confute any 
opinion that it has been developed and undertaken with certain char- 
itable or philanthropic objects in view, it is well to state that this is 
not its aim. 

Forest Hills Gardens is a high-class suburban residential commu- 
nity conducted upon strictly business principles. It is a new type of 
high-class home community not to be confused with the usual ephem- 
eral development filled with absurb fancies and individual idiosyn- 
cracies. ' 

It is a successful project along garden city or model town plan- 
ning lines and contains the basis of a liberal education in this work. 

Residents of Queens Borough particularly should visit Forest 
Hills Gardens and become familiar with this great progressive under- 
taking, located in their Borough. 

SAGE FOUNDATION HOMES COMPANY 

Forest Hills, L. I., and 47 West 34th Street, Manhattan 



1 




TYPICAL SEMI-FIREPROOF DWELLINGS. 



170 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



LONG ISLAND CITY 
INDUSTRIAL •.• PROPERTIES 



Conveniently located to 
Dual Rapid Transit 
System ; Also locations 
with Rail ana Water 
facilities 



HENRY DUCHARDT 

10 EAST 43rd street, NEW YORK 



IRON - STEEL 

BARS AND SHAPES 

BURDEN IRON PRODUCTS 

NORWA\ AND SWEDISH IRON 

ROUNDS SQUARES ANGLES HOOPS BANDS 

FLATS HEXAGONS JEES PLATES SHEETS 

TOOL STEEL BEAMS BLACK 

AND 

COLD DRAWN STEEL CHANNELS GALVANIZED 

ESTABLISHED 1829 

EGLESTON BROS. 6c CO., Inc. 

166 SOUTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY 

Cable Address: Egleston, N. Y. 



New York City 171 

LATHAM LITHO & PRINTING CO. 




THE above picture is a preliminary sketch of our 
new Long Island City Plant "which we are ex- 
pecting to build during 1920, to add to the Industry 
and Beauty of Queens Borough, and to take care of 
our increasing need of space and facilities. 

And our purpose is to have a building of some 
beauty and attractiveness, something to properly 
express the Advertising Value and the Art Value of 
our product. Our main product is 

Billboard Posters 

such as you see along the roads and high-svays every- 
where, called 24-sheet Posters. Our special Facil- 
ities and Equipment along this line are the biggest 
and best in the country. 

Many of our customers say that we are making 
the best Billboard Posters that are produced, as to 
Advertising Art and Design, and as to quality of 
Paper, of Colors, and of durability of Inks. 

fVe are making at present about 40 (fo of all the 
Commercial Posters produced in the country — due 
alone to our special and superior knowledge and 
facilities along that line. Our further specialties are: 

Window Displays, Cut-outs, 
Hangers, Car Cards, Show Cards, 

and other such Advertising Material. 
Until we get into our new plant, our address is 



Bush 
Terminal 



LTITFiTIM 



iflTHO 

PRINTING 



Brooklyn 

N. Y. 



172 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



y TIRES *v 

SURE FOOTED 

ON ALL ROADS IN A' L WEATHER 
FABRICS CORDS 

Win Absolute Conficlence 
By Unvarying Periornvance 

The Choice ot Motorists 
Who Know Quality. 

MORE MILES 
BETTER SERVICE 
REAL ECONOMY 

MADE BY 

THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE- 
COLLENDER GO., 



OF 
NEW YORK 



39 W. 32nd St., New York, N. Y. 



DEALERS EVERYWHERE 




ALBERT B. TEN EYCK 
;"Y-TREAS. 



R. RANDEL WANGEMAN 
PRESIDENT 



150 

Telephone ^5^ Astoria 



TEN EYCK 8c WANGEMAN, Inc. 



104 Main street 



Long Island City, N. Y. 



Estates Managed 



Realty Investments representing 

Aetna Casualty & Surety Co. Massachusetts F. & M. Ins. Co. 
Aetna Life Ins. Co. Niagara Fire Ins. Co. 

Insurance The Automobile ins. Co. Reliance Ins. Co. 

London Assurance Corporation Westchester Fire Ins Co. 
Renting Hudson insurance Co. 



ALBANY. N. Y. 
ASHEVILLE. N. C. 
BALTIMORE. M. D. 
BOSTON, MASS. (2) 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. 
BUFFALO, N. Y. 
CHICAGO, ILL. 
CLEVELAND, O. 
E. CAMBRIDGE, MASS. 
HARLEM. N. Y. 
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 




LOUiSFVlLLE, KY. 
LONG ISLAND CITYN.Y 
NASHVILLE. TENN. 
NEW HAVEN, CONN. 
NEW YORK. N. Y. 
ONEIDA. N. Y. 
PHILADELPHIA. PA. 
PITTSBURG. PA. 
ROCHESTER. N. Y. 
SCRANTON. PA. 
SYRACUSE. N. Y. 
WASHINGTON. D. C. 



MAIN OFFICE: 

Metropolitan District 

Jackson Avenue - Bridge Plaza 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



Cagfeet 

Cnmpanp 



New York City 173 





. The Pierce-Arrow Service Building in Long Island City is located on 
Jackson and Freeman Avenues at 5th and 6th Avenues, and 
extends through to Webster. 

Giving Greater New York 

A Greater PIERCE ARROW 

Greatness in a motor car or truck depends partly upon 
perfected service. And the Pierce-Arrow in New- 
York has at its beck and call the best-equipped service 
station in America. 

Its 200,000 square feet of floor space are equipped 
with modern machinery and every facility to give 
Pierce-Arrow owners prompt and valuable service. A 
complete stock of supplies and parts, valued at more than 
$175,000, is constantly carried. 

Experienced mechanics, trained in Pierce-Arrow con- 
struction at the Buffalo factory, are here to look after 
your passenger car or truck. 

These unusual facilities cut down the time required for 
adjustments, replacements and overhauling. They mean 
better continuous results from all Pierce-Arrows in this 
territory. 

Whoever puts a Pierce-Arrow to work in New York has 
as good a car or truck as can be built, backed up by as 
efificient a service as can be created. 

HARROLDS MOTOR CAR COMPANY 

Salesrooms : 

New York City : 233 West Fifty-Fourth Street 

Brooklyn; 1119 Atlantic Ave. Poughkeepsie; 57 Market St. 



174 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 




PLANT: 

Freeman Avenue and William St. 

Long Island City 



REGISTERED 



Acorn Silk Company 



N. Y. OFFICE AND 
SALESROOM: 
334 Fourth Avenue 



Nero York City \ 




Emil Caiman ©* Co. 



100 William St. 



New York 



FACTORY 

Vernon © Harris Aves. 
Lon^ Island City 

Manufacturers of the 
highest grades of 

Enamels Varnislies 

Baking Japans 

Etc. 



Tel. f^ Astoria 


VOSKA, FOEISCH & SIDLO, Inc. 


OFFICE & FACTORY 


Mills St. Astoria, L. I. 


Near 92nd St. Ferry 


Marble Work of Every Description 



ESTABLISHED 
1850 



Joseph J, Kozak 
Pres. 



Henry E. McLoughlin 
Vicc-Pres. & Treas. 



KOZAK & NCLOOGHLIN, Inc. 

LADIES FOOTWEAR 

Factory: 14tn St. 6? Governor Place 
Long Island City, N. Y. 
Tfel. Hunterspoint 191 



New York City 



175 




THE MANHATTAN-ROME COM- 
ANY is the New York branchj of 
the Rome Metallic Bedstead Company, 
of Rome, New York. The concern 
operates similar branches in Baltimore, 
Boston and Chicago. 

The Manhattan-Rome Company it- 
self opetatesi branches in Albany 
Buffalo, Newark, New Haven, Phila- 
delphia, Rochester and Wilkesbarre. 
This entire division is supplied from 
the factory [.in Long Island City and 
handled as a salts-unit from the show 
rooms in the Marb/idge Building. 

Rome Products-metal beds, springs 
cots, couch-beds and hammocks are 
recognized as standard througl.out the 
country. 



MAfNHATTAN-ROME COMPANY 

LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK 




Sales Offices: 
Marhridge Bldg. 
47 W. 34th St. 
New]YorklCily 



Factory: 
Anable Avenue 
Long Island Cit\) 




176 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



DEFEWDEB HmFACTOmi; CO.. Inc. 

PEARSON STREET — DEGNON TERMINAL 
LONG ISLAND CITY 




MANUFACTURERS OF 

SHEETS, PILLOW CASES, 
BED SPREADS, ETC. 



Queens borou^k 
LumDer Co., Inc. 



FLUSHING YARD 

40-80 West Bradford Avenue 

Telephone 3386 Flusliing 

BAYSIDE YARD 

Park Avenue and 2nd Street 

Telephone 63 Baypide 

WHITESTONE YARD 

11th Avenue and 22nd Street 

Telephone 1646 Flushing 



For More Than Half a Century 
This Triangle Trade-Mark 




WD 



traoeV^^/mark 



w 



HAS IDENTIFIED 



The World's Best Pipes 

MANUFACTURED BY 

WM. DEMUTH & CO. 

NEW YORK 



New York City 



177 




JflCKpHOST 

TABLET SUGHR 

Tlie tdbletwiiicli fSpfX^ib-fodiscntniudiiuA 
peookEdc' ' • .v.tre.dtid perfect 

Ofiiniforu ,ps in the box, 

iiowasie oti Tiie td.b'e ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 

100% fuvc C ^^ 

THE NATION ALSLi 



129 Front Sti-eei 




-HNINGCQ 

> - %v Yo r k 



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178 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



^^ARMOR^^ 



REG. U. S. PAT. OFF. 



QUALITY BOILER ARCHES AND JAMBS, SIDE WALL 
AND BRIDGE WALL BLOCKS. 




GREENPOINT FIRE BRICK CO. 

Office: 111 Clay Street, Brooklyn 
BrancK : Borden Avenue, L. I. City 



Docks-EAST RIVER 

Harris Avenue to Englis Street 
Telephones 4151-4152 Hunters Point 



YOyNG & WTZKEe 

Bags and Bagging 



OFFICE AND FACTORY: 

321 to 379 Vernon Avenue 

LONG ISLAND CITY 

N. Y. 



1855 



1920 



J.a^T. ADIKES 

Gram Seeds Flour 

Produce Feed Groceries 



JAMAICA 



FLUSHING 



TOP NOTCH 

1 BEACONy FALLS 1 1 
RUBBER FOOTWEAR 



Made with patented heels that last as long 
as the soles. Rubbers and canvas s hoes 
with rubber soles that fit better, look 
better and wear better than the ordin- 
ary kind. That's why they 
gn\ are Top Notch. Look for the 
Top Notch cross trade mark. 

BEACON FALLS RUBBER SHOE COMPANY 

College Point, Long Island, New York, 
New York City 106 Duane Street 



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New York City 



179 




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N the Borough of Queens, twelve min- 
utes from Pennsylvania Station, New 
York City, eigfkty-seven trains daily. 
Tw^enty-five minutes by trolley from Long 
Islana City, Fifteen minutes by automobile 
from Long Island City on Queens Boulevard. 
Houses for sale — bouses built to order — Lots 
for sale — easy terms/^ 

OFFICES 

(Eorb Mt^n i^bdnprn^nt to 

B2 HiUtam ^Ircpt. jWanl^attan 
iForest i^'iUb, lorougli nf (J^upfhb, C 31. 



180 CpI AMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE BOROUGH OF QuEENS 



TIFFANY @) STVDIOS 



ORNAMENTAL BRONZE 
AND IRON WORK 

Entrance and Vestibule Doors, Gates and Arcnways, 

Marquises, Candelabra, Bank Screens, Cneck Desks, 

Tablets, Clocks, Stair Railings, Elevator Fronts 

and Cars, Andirons, Statuary Bronze, Etc. 

LIGHTING FIXTURES 

Cnandeliers, Wall Brackets, Entrance Torcneres, Ceiling 
Discs and Tiffany Lighting Glassware 

CORONA. LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



Q 



UEENS HEADQUARTERS FOR 



Xumber, timber 



-anD. 



Builders' Supplies 

5,000,000 ^t. Stock of Long and Short Leaf Yellow Pine and 
Spruce, Rough or Dressed. 

All sizes from 1" x 2" Furring Strips to 14" x 14'* Timber. 

Steerco Sand and Gravel Mixture, Sand, Stone, Gravel, 
Cement, Brick, Lime, Brick Partitions, Etc. 
STEVEDORING AND TRUCKING 

Ibunterspoint Xumber & Supply €o., unc. 

S)eGnon terminal, X. II. Citp, IR. ip. 

Phone 2986-7-8 Hunterspoint 



New York City 181 



ONE THIRD OF OUR MM 



conies from Queens County tkrougk our 
Jamaica Office in tke Post Office Builcl- 
mg, and its all good business. 

WE WANT MORE OF IT ! 

We examine and guarantee Titles to 
Real Estate and we make Loans on 
building operations and homes. 

See Mr. Jacobs, our Manager m Jamaica, 
and ne will give you courteous and 
prompt attention. 

HOlViE XIT1.E 
Il^yURATVCE C9 

•^ tS^NEW YORK 

Capital and Surplus, ov^er $1,200,000 



HENRY J. DAVENPORT, President 

HARRY B. HAWKINS I 

DWIGHT COMSTOCK ^ Local Board 



Home Office:— ^S3 Jay Streets Brooklyn, New York 



182 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

BUY IN QUEENSBOROUGH 

SHEET METAL 
PRODUCTS 

ARC, OXY-ACETYLENE, ELECTRO-SPOT 

WELDING 

SEND US YOUR BLUE PRINTS 
FOR 



QUOTATION 



THE HUNTER ILLUMINATED CAR SIGN CO. 

FLUSHING, - NEW YORK 



JUST ENTERING QUEENS 

THE KNOTT HOTELS 

KEW GARDENS INN 

Just cotnpletea at Ke\v Gardens, Long Island, 
IS our latest kotel, thoroughly modern and up 
to date. Operated on the residential American 
plan 

UNDER KNOTT MANAGEMENT 

NOW OPERATING IN NEW YORK CITY 

HOTEL HOLLEY HOTEL ALBERT HOTEL WELLINGTON 

HOTEL EARLE HOTEL IRVING HOTEL LE MARQUIS 

HOTEL JUDSON THE BERKELEY THE VAN RENSSELAER 

Write or Phone Manager for Rates 

GEO. H. WARTMAN, Manager 

Telephone Rictitiond Hill 3892 



New York City 



183 



A VITAL SHAVING TRUTH 




Does your razor skave "clean and 
smootn one day, then scrape and 
pull the next? 

Rust causes the difference. very 

razor blade has a fine "saw" edge. 
You cannot wipe it absolutely dry. 
Lather and moisture cause invisible 
^i rust to form over night between the 
microscopic teeth of the razor edge. 
This destroys its keenness and makes 
the razor pull. A drop or two of 
3-in-One prevents this rust. Before 
tomorrow morning's shave do this : 
Moisten tip of thumb and finger with 
a drop of 3-in-One and draw edge of 
razor blade between. That's all. 



3-in-One Oil 

puts real joy into your shaving. Effective for 
both old style and safety razors. 
To make your strop take hold of the razor better, 
rub a few drops of 3-in-One into it occasionally. 
You'll notice the difference at once. 



rREli Special Razor Saver 

Circular and generous sample of 

3-in-One, sent anywhere 

w^ithout charge. Ask for 

both on a postal card. 




^andy Oil C^ ^ 

THREE IN ONE OIL 

PREVENTS RU5 I 

LUBRICATES 

CLEANS AND 

POLISHES 

TALKING MACHINES 
SEWING MACHINES 
TYPEWRITERS »■ 

ELECTRIC FANS 

RAZORS & STROPS 

FIRE-ARMS 

MAGNETOS. COMMUTATOR' 

CASH REGISTERS 8. LA*" 

^■"•VERS' LIGHT MACHINERY. ETC 

'*NOS, FURNITURE 8. WOODWORK 

THREE IN ONE oircOMPANV 



3-iti-One is sold at all stores 
in 1 oz., 3 oz. and 8 o». 
bottles aaa in 3 oz. Handy 
Oil Cans. 




Three-in-One Oil Co., 165 AER. Broad 



way, New York City 



184 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



MAHOGANY 



LUMBER and VENEERS 






, Inc. 



oTVIills and Yards: 
LONG ISLAND CITY 



New York Office: 
347 MADISON AVE. 



JURGEN RATHJEN COMPANY 

Wnolesale ana Retail Dealers in 

COAL 



ANTHRACITE 



BITUMINOUS 



WE SPECIALIZE IN FACTORY TRADE 

COAL POCKETS 
Foot of Twelitli Street and Vernon Avenue 

Telephone 3456-3457 Hunterspoint 

Jackson Avenue and Madden Street 

Teleplione 769 Astoria 

Phone and Ask Us to Have Our Representative Call 



New York City 



185 




AERO VIEW OF LAURELTON 



Lautelton 



Long Island 



THE GARDEN SUBURB IN NEW YORK CITY 

Unexcelled Transit - All Public Utilities 

A well developed community on the soutK side of 

Queens Borou^k 
Wonderful snade trees and beautiful flowers 
Hignly restricted but moderately priced 
Twenty-rive minutes from Manhattan 

LAURELTON SALES COMPANY, Inc. 

LAURELTON BUILDING 

Thirty-third Street and Seventh Avenue 

Phone 1119 Greely Office on Property 




TYPICAL LAUREUTON HOWIES 



186 



Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



"SERVICE THAT PLEASES" 



Henry M. Dietz 



REAL ESTATE 

Homes and Factory Sites 



Mortgage Loans Negotiated General Insurance 

390 NINTH AVENUE 
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



LONG ISLAND FOUNDRY CO., 



INCORPORATED 



•^ 



H 



eavy a 



nd 



Light Grey 

IRON CASTINGS 

lltk and 12tli Streets 

Near East Avenue 
Long Island City, N. Y, 

Telephone Hunterspoint 1794 



T ots, Plots, Houses, 
[Factory Sites 

and 

Water Fronts 

In Long Island City and 
Vicinity 



FOR SALE BY 

ROE H. SMITH SCO. 

137 Fulton Ave. 
Long Island City, N. Y. 



New York City 187 




An Institution for Service 

The Greatest Service Station for Motor-driven Vehicles in 
the World ! The Packard Motor Car Company of New 
York has brought a great institution to the Borough of 
Queens. 

A modern building of eight stories, containing 326,650 
square feet of floor space devoted to the upkeep of motor 
cars and trucks. 

Employment is given to over 650 persons who have Ideal 
working conditions, including a restaurant and other up-to- 
date methods for the welfare of its employees. 
This great Institution serves both the Individual and the 
business organization. It brings cars and trucks from all 
over Greater New York and Westchester County to the 
Borough of Queens. 

It serves practically every line of business, from those who 
handle the raw material to those who market the finished 
product. 



THE PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY 
0/ NEW YORK 

Long Island City, New York 

New York Newapk New Haven- 
Brooklyn Paterson New I^ondon 
White Plains Plainfield Springfield 
PouGHKEEPSiE Jersey City Pittsfield 
Hartford 



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' ' One policy of The Home of New Yorl^ recommends another. 

ELBRIDGE G. SNOW, President 
THE HOME ORGANIZED 1853 

INSURANCE COMPANY 



Vj" 'P VV Y QR TC H°"^^ ^^^''^ •• No. 56 Cedar Street 
Cask Capital, $6,000,000.00 

Statement, January 1, 1920 



Cask Assets, _ - - 

Cask Capital, _ - - 

Liabilities, - - - 

Net Surplus, - - - 

Surplus As Regards Policynolders, 



$54,595,060,31 
6,000,000.00* 
32,769,09399 
15,825,966.32* 
21,825,966.32* 



Aircraft. Automobile (Combination Policv). Explosion, Fire and Lightning, Hail. Marine 

(Inland and Ocean). Parcel Post, Profits and Commissions. Registered Mail, 

Rents, Rental Values, Riot and Civil Commotion, Srrinkler Leakagt, 

Tourists' Baggage, Use and Occupancy, Windstorm 



STRENGTH 



REPUTATION 



SERVICE 



DICKEL 

Construction Co. 

Builders of 
Model Homes 



Real Estate Investments 



Guaranteed 
first mortgages for sale 

Money to loan 
for first mortgages 



73 BENNINGTON AVENUE 
WOODHAVEN, N. Y. 

Phone 634 Ricbmond Hill 



United States 
Title Guaranty Company 



\ \ / E are now offering investors 

guaranteed First Mortgage 

Certificates netting 53^% per an- 
num in amounts of $500.00 and 
upwards. 

Come in and let us explain tne merits 
and convenience of this ideal form 
of guaranteed investment. 



32 Court Street, Brooklyn 

'PKone 7370 Main 

346 Fulton Street, Jamaica 

'Pbone 700 Jamaica 



New York City 



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REG. U.S 
PAT. OFF. 




TJNDER the airection of special- 
ists from tke Prague plant 
of Waldes^Co., tkis factory in Long 
Island City — equipped with exclusive 
and patented machinery — is now 
producing the Roh - i - nOOF 

Triumph Snap Fastener. 

the fastener used and endorsed 
by the world's leading fashion 
creators. 

WALDES & CO., Inc. 

FACTORY : 
Creek Street and Anable Avenue 
Long Island City 
SALES OFFICES: 

315 Fifth Ave. 
New York City 




The Largest Snap Fastener Plant In Amer 



ica 



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WRIGLEY'S 

SEALED TIGHT— KEPT RIGHT 




.WRIGLEY'S 

JUrCY FRUIT 

CHEWING GUM 




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THE FLAVOR LASTS 

WIAJ. WRIGLEY JR. CO. 

METROPOLITAN AND WOODWARD AVES. 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



X o JPurcliasers of 
Jt^eal £!^state 

Buyers of Improved Real Estate 
in any BorougK of tKe City 
wKo need a Loan to nnance 
their purcnase would do \vell 
to consult us first. 
We have ample funds to lend 
on New York City real estate. 

TITLE GUARANTEE & 
TRUST CO. 



C. CURTIS WOODRUFF & CO. 


MASON BUILDERS 


GENERAL CONTRACTORS 


213 Tentli Street 


LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 


Phone 2646 Hunters Point 



Capital 
Surplus - 



$5,000,000 
$11,000,000 



176 Broadway 137 W. 125tli Street 

370 E. 149tl» Street 175 Remsen Street 
BROOKLYN 
350 Fulton St., Jamaica 
67 Jackson Ave., L. 1. City 
90 Bay Street, St. George, Staten Island 



HOMES AND HOME SITES 

At 

HOWARD BEACH 

The Most Accessible Surburan 
Community In New York City. 

HOWARD ESTATES DEVELOPMENT COHPANV 

51 Chambers St.. N. Y. City 



New York City 



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Electrical Service to Industry 




A S Electrical EngmeeringSp^ciaiists we 
are prepared to meet every electrical 
requirement oi industry in accordance with 
the highest standard of engineering practice. 
1 he installation ol complete power 
m a new factory, the entire revision ot an 
existing system to meet new conditions, the 
successful application of electric power to 
unusual or difficult manufacturing pro- 
cesses, planning and installing an up-to-date 
lighting system, meeting promptly all main- 
tenance requirements of our customers— all 
these are in the day's work. 

We are dealers in General Electric 
Company motors and control apparatus and 
carry the only stock in the Borough of 
Queens of these motors w^hich are recog- 
nized as a standard of efficiency and 
reliability. • 



AUSTIN & MOORE, Inc. 
Industrial Electrical Engineers 



BRIDGE PLAZA, LONG ISLAND CITY 
Warehouse and Shop at Wilbur Ave. 
and Crescent St. 



) Office: Astoria 592 
Telephone j ^^^^^ Astoria 906 



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(PATENTED) 




THE M^HMM C^MIF/^MY 

fomj] IslainKal O^KJ 

Ball, Roller, Thrust and Combination Bearings 
n i i n 



M NORIH SHORE 



0:ffers tKe most convenient Kome 
for Long Island City and Queens 
manufacturers. 

Let us eend you a list oi places to 
fit your requirements. 

Several fine acreage places both on 
and near the water. 

L'ECLUSE, WASHBURN & CO. 



INCORPORATED 



NORTH SHORE SPECIALISTS 



1 WEST 34th street 



NEW YORK 



TELEPHONE 2295 GREELEY 



GLASS 

OF ALL DESCRIPTION 

For Building Construction 

GLASS 

For Automobile Bodies 
and Wind SKields 

GLASS TOPS 

For Furniture 



Joseph Elias & Co., Inc, 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 

Telephone Astoria 1100 



Telephone 
388 Astoria 



GEORGE M. O'CONNOR 



PLU MBI NG 
CONTRACTOR 



Steam and Hot Water Heating 



154 FULTON AVENUE 
ASTORIA 

NEW YORK CITY 



New York City 



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Twenty-seven years ago the Neptune Meter Company foresaw 
the present great development of Queens Borougli. 

Foresight has teen tacked ty faith and energy with the result 
pictured. 

NEPTUNE METER COMPANY 



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American Ever Ready VVorks 

OF NATIONAL CARBON CO., Inc. 

Long Island City. N. Y. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 

eveREAdy 



DAYLO, "TUNGSTEN" BATTERIES, MAZDA MINIATURE LAMPS, 

ELECTRICAL MEASURING INSTRUMENTS, NON- 

SULPHATING STORAGE BATTERIES 



DorCt ask for a 
"Flashlight" get an 



iVEREADY 

DAYLD 



The light that says 
"THERE IT IS'' 




'CANDIES OF DISTINCTIVE QQALITY" 

THE noticeable superiority of Tiffin CKocolates is tKe 
result of the selection of tke finest materials, the 
exact blending of rich cream, with nuts, and pure fruits, 

combination with the wonderful 



and their exceptional 
chocolate coating. 



Distinctively Delicious. 

Tiffin Candies may be purchased at 
the finer stores and at Tiffin Shops. 

TIFFIN PRODUCTS, Inc. 

Jackson and Second Avenues 




New York City 



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STEINWAY 

The Instrument of the Immortals 

There has been but one supreme piano in the history of music. 
In the days of Liszt and Wagner, of Rubinstein and Berhoz, the 
pre-eminence of the Stein way was as unquestioned as it is today. 
It stood then, as it stands now, the chosen instrument of the 
masters — the inevitable preference wherever great music is un- 
derstood and esteemed. 

STEINWAY & SONS, Steinway Hall, 
107-109 E. 14th St., New York 

Subway Express Stations at Door 



"Made in Queens Borough" 



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A GLANCE AT THE ABOVE TELLS OUR STORY 



ALL RAILROADS AT YOUR DOOR- 
CARTAGE ELIMINATED 

Rapid Transit Service connecting with Bor- 
oughs of Manhattan, Bronx and Brooklyn for 
single fare. 

Ten Minutes to Grand Central Station, Times 
Square and 59th Street and Fifth Avenue. 

More factories have been located in this 
vicinity than any other part of Greater New 
York during the past year. 



For Information Apply To 

DEGNON REALTY AND TERMINAL IMPROVEMENT COMPANY 

DEGNON TERMINAL RAILROAD CORPORATION 

Telephone Vanderbilt 4087. 51 East 42nd Street, New York City. 



New York City 



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DEGNONH 

TERMINAL 





JlfGATEWAY TO WORLD'S GREATEST fWARKETS 



(Opposite 42ncl and 59tK Streets, Manhattan) 

THE HOME OF LARGE INDUSTRIES 
MANUFACTURERS 

The following industries after investigating the advantages offered by DEGNON 
TERMINAL as a location for their plants; located there: 



LOOSE-WILES BISCUIT COMPANY 
AMERICAN EVER READY WORKS 
THE WHITE COMPANY 
JOHN SIMMONS CO. 
THE CONCRETE STEEL CO. 
NORMA CO. OF AMERICA 
DEFENDER MFG. CO. 
PITTSBURGH PLATE GLASS CO. 
MANHATTAN SOAP CO. 
HUNTERSPOINT LUMBER & SUPPLY 
CO. 



WISSMACH GLASS CO. 
AMERICAN CHICLE CO. 
SAWYER BISCUIT CO. 
S. BLICKMAN, INC. 
BRETT LITHOGRAPHING CO. 
HENRY WALDES CO. 
MARCUS WARD, INC. 
MANHATTAN-ROME CO. 
PALMOLIVE CO. 
FAHNESTOCK ELECTRIC CO. 
OPERAPHONE CO. 



AND OTHERS. 

FACTORY SITES FOR SALE 

In Plots Ranging from 4,000 sq. feet, to 200.000 sq. ft. in area. 

WITH AND WITHOUT RAIL AND WATER SHIPPING FACILITIES 

Convenient for trucking to Manhattan and Brooklyn 

BUILDERS 

SITES FOR APARTMENTS AND TENEMENTS 
Adjoining the Above Industries 
Employing over 8,000 workers who Require Homes. 
Rapid Transit Lines on Two Sides of Degnon Terminal Reaching Manhat- 
tan, Brooklyn and Bronx for a single fare. 

For Information Apply to 

DEGNON REALTY AND TERMINAL IMPROVEMENT COMPANY 

DEGNON TERMINAL RAILROAD CORPORATION 

Telephone Vanderbilt 4087. 51 East 42nd Street New York City. 



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National Bridge Works 

"iSTEEL When You Want It." 

Telephone 

Hunters Point 3966 Main Office and Works : 

Hunters Po^t ^968 REVIEW AVENUE, LONG ISLAND CITY 

Hunters Point 3969 NEW YORK 

Hunters Point 3970 

BrancK Sales Office: MERIDEN, CONN. 



Plain and Fabricated Steel. Prompt and Dependable Service 
Assured Auto Truck Delivery 

Minimum Stock on Hand. 6,000 Tons of Beams, Channels, Plates, 
Angles and Structural Bars 

Shop is Modern and Well Equipped to Fabricate All types of Steel 

Structures 



RUSH WORK A SPECIALTY. 



PHONE — GREENPO INT 807-808-809 
NIGHT PH3NE-GREENP01NT 2047 

FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AS STANDARD FOR QUALITY IN THE 

MANUFACTURE AND REPAIRS OF BOILERS AND 

PRESSURE TANKS 

THE CHRISTOPHER CUNNINGHAM CO. 

427-447 GREENPOINT AVENUE 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



BOILERS : PRESSURE TANKS 

JACKETED TANKS STORAGE TANKS, STACKS, FLUES, ETC. 
LICENSED GASOLINE TANK BUILDERS 

BOILER REPAIRS BY EXPERTS AT SHORT NOTICE 



New York City 



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FRANCISCO CBi JACOBUS 



ENGINEERS AND ARCHITECTS 



New York City 



Chicago 



[1892 Hunters Point-Works 
^^^- 1^3260 Flushing-Night Servic, 

ESTABLISHED - 1905 
INCORPORATED - 1916 



COLE-DUNCAN BOILER WORKS 

INCORPORATED 

Boilers, Tanks, Stacks, Breecnings 

and Special Plate Work of 

Every Description. 



Boilers Repaired and Retubed b\) Competent 
Workmen . 



379-385 BORDEN AVENUE 
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



A. M. DUNCAN 

Secretary and Treasurer 



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INCORPORATED 



MANUFACTURERS 

BOOTS, SHOES, 
LEGGINGS AND 
OVERGAITERS 



EXECUTIVE OFFICES AND FACTORIES 
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



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American Chicle Co., Long Island City 




Anchor Cap & Closure Corp., Long Island City 



Industrial BuiUings 
Process Equipments 
Power Houses 
Mechanical Equipment 
Stanaaraizea Buildings 




One of our Housing Developments 

BALLINGER & PERROT 

ARCHITECTS, ENGINEERS 
(Qualified by 






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S. Karpen & Bros., Long Island City 




Patterson-Sargent Co., Long Island City 




Hotels 

Office Buildings 
Institutions andScliools 
Cliurclies 

Housing ana Town 
Planning 



A View Across the Village Green 

—NEW YORK a? PHILADELPHIA 
AND CONSTRUCTORS 
26 years experience) 



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PHONE cylSTORIA lOl 



ESTABLISHED 1890 



aA' Recknagel, Inc, 

407—414 STEINWAY AVENUE 
LONG ISLAND CITY 



HARDWARE 

FACTORY, MILL C^ CONTRACTORS' SUPPLIES 



ROOFING 



TINSMITHS 



LEADERS 



LIVE AT 

BROADWAY 

ON THE 
HILL 

FLUSH I NG 

no FEET ABOVE THE SEA 

CHOICE BUILDING LOTS AND 
PLOTS FOR SALE 



MONEY ADVANCED 
TO BUILD 



ALLYN-HALL 
REALTY CO. 

320-322 FIFTH AVENUE 

Phone Madison Sq. I4I2 



CROSS & BROWN 
COMPANY 

18 East 41st St., New York City 

Telephone Murray Hill 7100 



Has Built and Sold Over 325,000 

Square Feet 

Oi Fireproof Factory Space. 

In Long Island City 

125,000 Square Feet Now Under 

Construction. 



Will Build To Suit and Lease or Sell 

On Easy Terms — 

Location as Selected. 



Factory and Factory Sites 
With and Without Railroad Siding 



We specialize in 
Industrial Properties 



New York City 



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FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS 

REPLICAS FROM ENGLISH, FRENCH AND 
ITALIAN SCHOOLS 

W)t #rSenieo Co. 



INCORPORATED 



Factory : 

SkiUman Ave. ^ Rawson St. 

Lon^ Issland City 



Sliowroom : 
112 West 42nd Street 
New York City 



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C A complete listing of all available space, land 
or buildings, with and without railroad sid- 
ings, on waterfront and inland, in or near 
New York City. 

C Clients of this office will finance and erect 
buildings on a long term lease, or sell the com- 
pleted buildings on easy terms. 

American Chicle Co. 

Sawyer Biscuit Co. 

Defender Mfg. Co. 

Rome Metallic Bedstead Co. 

The Aeolian Co. 

and other leading manufacturers 

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INCORPORATED 
1915 




OVEN TRUCK 



GEHNRICH INDIRECT HEAT OVEN GO.,1 

SKILLMAN AVE., HONEYWELL AND BUCKLEY STS. 



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LONG ISLAND CITY 



New York City 



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OF REINFORCED CONCRETE 
AND MILL CONSTRUCTION 

ANYWHERE 
IN GREATER NEW YORK 




REPETTI, Inc. 



1 will erect buildings containing any- 
where from 10,000 to 100,000 square 
feet of manufacturing space for any 
responsible prospective lessee. 

I will build and sell tbe structure for 



a small casb consideration, taking a 
mortgage, to be amortized over an 
agreed period, for the balance. The 
plan will make it possible for the chent 
to reduce rental overhead to approx- 
imately one-half present cost. 



New Buildings I Have Erected m Queens Borougk 

(a) REPETTI, INC., 14th St. and Ely Ave., L. I. City 

(b) FRUIT PRODUCTS, Washington and 6th Aves. 

(c) PERFECT WINDOW REGULATOR CO., Harris and 

Van Alst Aves. 

(d) PIROXLOID PRODUCTS CORP., 8th St., near Jackson 

Ave. 

(e) C. H. MOTORS, Ely and Henry Sts. 

(f) TRANSPORT SERVICE, INC., Harris Ave. 

(g) GEHNRICH INDIRECT HEAT OVEN CO., Skillman 

Ave. and Honeywell St. 
(h) C. E. SHEPPARD Co., Van Als't Ave. and 12th St. 
(i) ART ORNAMENT CO., 3rd St. and Jackson Ave. 

LOUIS GOLD 



44 COURT STREET 



BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



PKone Main 7050 



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IMOTT PLUMBING 




MOTT PLUMBING IS GIVIXG SA.TISFACTORY SERVICE 

IN COUNTLESS INDUSTUIAI. PLANTS TIIROUCHOUT THK Ct>UNTRY 

WRITE FOR OUR CVTA.UOGUE OF MODKRN PLUMBING UQUIl'MKNT FOR FACTORIES 

The J. L. JMott Irox Works 

118 Fifth Avknue. >Jew York llo Broadway, Long Island City 



DONNER 

HOUSE WRECKING CO., INC. 

DEALERS IN 

NEW AND SECOND 
HAND LUMBER 

OFFICE AND YARDS: 

ELY AVENUE AND NORTH JANE STREET 

LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 

TELEPHONE ASTORIA 338 



New York City 



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C. A. WILL[Y CO. 



MANUFACTURERS OF 






"^R A D E M AR,K 

Automobile Paints, Colors 
Varnislies, Etc. 

LONG ISLAND CITY 
NEW YORK 



Howell, Field & 
Goddard, Inc. 

MANUFACTURERS OF 

Standwell Standardized 
Steel Covered Doors 
and Combination Steel 
Bucks, Jambs and Trim 

LATITE ASPHALT SHINGLES 

;; Patented 

Cost Less to Buy 
Cost Less to Lay 

THAN ANY OTHER GOOD ROOF 
OFFICES AND FACTORY: 

Review Avenue, L. I. City 

Telephone -■ ^g^j ! Hunters Point 



Knickerbocker 
Ice 



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ompany 



The NAME of KARPEN 



KM*pei) 

, GMBo^akivteed. 

' CHICAGO 

MICHIGAN CITY-NEWTOHK 



distinguishes our Furniture from the 



S. KARPEN & BROS. 



DESIGNERS 



MANUEACTURERS 



SHOWROOMS 

HI W. 37tl, St., New York City * 

8tL St. & Wabash Ave., Chicago, 111. 

FACTORIES 

Chicago 
Michigan City Long Island City 



New York City 



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BSON 



ODEL STUCCO HOME 

DEVELOPMENT 



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AT EI.MHURST MANOR 

WITH AUTO DRIVEWAYS 




The Perfect Low Priced American Home 

Designed and constructed for the Homeseeker 
wko desires tlie best at tke least cost 

Tke Ideal Home Place for tlie Children 

Well Drained, Sewered, Convenient to Sckools 
ChurcKes, Stores and Amusements 

W. R. GIBSON 

BUILDER AND DEVELOPER 

OFFICE AND BUILDINGS 
Burnside Avenue and Thirty-Seventh Street 

Elmhurst Manor, L. L 

PHONE NEWTOWN 2073 



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INDUSTRIAL REAL ESTATE 

FACTORIES — LOFTS — WATER FRONTS — LOTS 

Queens Borough a Specialty 

FOURTEEN YEARS' ACTIVE EXPERIENCE 

ALL LOCATIONS AND INDUSTRIAL TERMINALS ANALYZED (FROM AN 
ABSOLUTELY IMPARTIAL STANDPOINT) ACCORDING TO 
THE CUSTOMER'S REQUIREMENTS 

52 VANDERBILT AVE., NEW YORK 

TELEPHONE CONNECTION 




Isaac Baer, President Telephone 

Meyer Weisberg, Treasurer cy^storia 433 

The Weisberg-Baer Co. 

Highgrade INTERIOR WOODWORK 
Window Frames, Sash and Doors 

BOULEVARD TO EAST RlVERj, 
LONG ISLAND CITY 



TELEPHONE ASTORIA 1007 

NIGHT RESIDENCE PHONES 

LENOX 9318 

ASTORIA 2970 



J. KLEINHENZ 
W. HUBER 



QUEENS HAULAGE CORPORATION 

MOTOR TRUCKING AND STORAGE 

EXPORT HEAVY HAULING TO ALL PIERS OUR 

SPECIALTY. 

ANY CAPACITY TRUCKS 

1037-1039 BOULEVARD, ASTORIA, L. I. 



LONG DISTANCE 
RIGGING AND HOISTING 



Cassidy Company 

INCORPORATKD 

Designers and IVIakers of 
Lighting Fixtures 



lOl Park avenue 

AT FORTIETH ST. 
^IE^V• "\"OBK 



Factory 

15-21 Wilbur avenue 

LONG ISLAND City 



New York City 211 



Largest Life Insurance Business in the World 

Metropolitan 
Life Insurance Company 

(incorporated by the state of new York) 
HALEY FISKE, President FREDERICK H. ECKER, Vice-Pres. 

Total Amount of Outstanding Insurance .... $5,343,652,434 

Larger than that of any other Company in the World.. 

Ordinary (annual premium) Life Insurance paid for in 1919 - $910,091,087 

More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in the World. 

Industrial (weekly premium) Insurance paid for in 1919 - $508,590,405 

More than has ever been placed in one year by any Company in the World. 

Total Insurance placed and paid for in 1919 - - - $1,418,681,492 

The largest amount ever placed in one year by any Company in the World. 

Gain in Insurance in Force in 1919 $914,140,618 

More than ever has been gained in one year by any Company in the World. 
The Company gained more insurance in force in 1919 than any other Company 
wrote. 

Number of Policies in Force December 31, 1919 - - - 21,770,671 

Larger than that of any other Company in America. 

Gain in Number of Outstanding Policies . - . . 1,986,410 

Larger than any Company in the World has ever gained in one year. 

Assets $864,821,824.55 

Increase in Assets during 1919 $89,367,126.27 

Larger than that of any other Company in tJie World. 

Liabilities $835,736,487.38 

Surplus $29,085,337.17 

Number of Claims paid in 1919 - - - - - - 289,125 

Averaging one policy paid for every 30 seconds of each business day of &■ 
hours. 

Amount paid to Policy-holders in 1919 - - - - - $73,581,759.91 

Payment of claims averaged $505.93 a minute of each business day of 8 hours. 
Metropolitan Nurses made 1,300,883 visits free of charge to 256,000 sick Industrial 

Policy-holders. 
Metropolitan men distributed over Twelve Miljions of pieces of literature on 
health— 
Bringing the total distribution to over 200,000,000. 

Reduction in general mortality at ages 1 to 74 in eight years, 17.9 per cent. 

Typhoid reduction, 69 per cent.; Tuberculosis, over 33 per cent.; Heart 
disease, over 23 per cent.; Bright's disease, over 25 per cent.; In- 
fectious diseases of children over 46 per cent. 

In general reduction and in each case of disease, this is far greater than that 
shown by statistics of the Registration Area of the United States. 

Death Rate for 1919 on its Industrial Business lowest in History of Company. 



See Pages 87 and 212 for illustrations of our new Printing and Binding Plant 

in Long Isla.nd City. 



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THE BOROUGH'S NEWEST 
INDUSTRY 

BOOK 
MANUFACTURING 

Located in the New, 
Up-to-the-Minute 



METROPOLITAN LIFE BUILDING 

Court Square, Long Island City 
AFTER DECEMBER 1st, 1920 

J. F. TAPLEY COMPANY 

ESTABLISHED 1850 
NOW AT 

531-3-5 West 37th Street, Manhattan 



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And encouraging the growtk of its manufacturing 

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JAMAICA PROPERTY CORP. 

THEODORE J. VAN HOREN, PRESIDENT 

Telephone Jamaica 878 

Sutpkin Boulevard ana Jamaica Avenue 

JAMAICA, NEW YORK CITY 

Lots - Plots - Acreage - Factories 
Residential Property 

ON THE HILL BY THE LAKE NEAR THE BAY 

Properties Sold, Rented, Exchanged 

Lots ior Builder on Terms 



Jamaica Park South 
Athens Heights 



SALES AGENT FOR 

Sutphin Park Arcadian Terrace 

Jamaica Villa Park Jamaica Harbor Plaza 



ESTABLISHED 1844 









BRETT LITHOGRAPHING CO 

FINE OFhSETT COLOR PRINTING 

ANABLE AVENUE, PEARSON AND MEADOW STREETS 



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New York- City 



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Queensborousfk 



■AND- 



The White Company 




This company enters the industrial life of Queensborough 
with the estaDlishment of its Ne\v York Branch selling 
offices, service station ana Foreign Department offices m a 
new Duilding now being completed at School Street and 
Thomson Avenue, Long Island City. 

To serve the entire metropolitan district, the installation 
and maintenance service available to users of White Trucks 
has been highly developed. Every facility has been pro- 
vided to give White users a 100% transportation service 
and to take care of the steadily increasing demand tor 
White Trucks. 

THE WHITE COMPANY 

Cleveland 
New York Branck : Madison Ave. at 45tli Street 



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The Plant Back of th 




STATION No. 1— FLUSHING 



ELECTRIC 

An important factor in determ 
These modern distributing stations are typic 

ADEQUATE an 

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Borough of Queens 

NEW YORK C^ QUEENS 
ELECTRIC LIGHT CBl^ POWER CO. 




New York City 



217 



/lectric Power Service 




STATION No. 2— JAMAICA 

^OWER 

ig the location of your factory 

f the plant and equipment which provide 

RELIABLE POWER 

le 

Jew York City 



Unliirnted 
Capacity 



BRIDGE PLAZA, LONG ISLAND CITY 



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J. P. DUFFY CO. 

BRICK - LIME - CEMENT 

TERRA COTTA BLOCKS 

AND OTHER 

MASONS' BUILDING MATERIAL 



ASTORIA YARD: 
JACKSON AVE. and MADDEN ST. 



Brooklyn: 
Second Ave. and 51st St. 



New York. 
138th Street 6c Park Avenue 




WM. WICKE RIBBON GO. 

GLENDALE, L. 1. 




PLone Hunterspoint 2070 




ELECTRICAL MACHINERY 
AND APPARATUS REPAIRED 

Expert RewinJmg 

A. C. and D. C. Motors 

and Generators 



Maintenance, Repairs, Contracting 
and Installation 



150 JACKSON AVENUE 
LONG ISLAND CITY 



New York City 



219 




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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 



TRANSPORT SERVICE, Inc. 

HARRIS AVENUE AND SHERMAN ST. 
LONG ISLAND CITY, N. Y. 



Gasoline & Electric Vehicles 

lYIotor Trucks 

Pleasure Cars 

Parts 

motor Repair & ReHulldino 

Commercial and Pleasure 

Bodies. 
Painting, Trimming 

Upholstering 

Machine Shop 
Blacksmith Work 
Carburetor Service 
Magneto Service 
Bc-ttery Service 
Garage 
Emergency Service 




and ::^i=^ 



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Roadside Repair and Tow- 
ing. Day and Night. 
Auto Trucks 
Storage Warehouses 
Export and Import 
Shipments and Freight Col- 
lections from all Piters 
and Terminals In Greater 
New York. 
'-^^^^^p!^ Carload Lot fepot Distri- 
butions a Specialty. 

of Town Accounts So- 
licited. 
Merchandise Transported to 
all Parts of the World. 



202. 




TELEPHONE ASTORIA 1881 — 1882 



The Ronzoni 
Macaroni Co. 



INCORPORATED , 



612—616 Jackson Avenue 
Long Island City, N. Y. 



GRADY MFG. CO. 

250-256 Ely Ave, 
Long Island City 

METAL POLISHES 

LIQUID AND PASTE 

NON-INFLAMMABLE AND 
INFLAMMABLE 



IMPERIAL NETAL MFG. CORP. 





81-3-5SUNSWICKSL, LI. CITY 

MFFS. OF SPRINKLER TOPS AND METAL SPECIALTIES 



Frederick A. Russell, Manager 

NEWTOWN CREEK TOWING CO. 



RIVER AND HARBOR TOWING 

BOATS SUPPLIED WITH POWERFUL PUMPS 
FOR FIRE OR WRECKING PURPOSES AND 

TESTING BOILERS 
BOATS LAY UP AT HUNTERS POINT BRIDGE 

MAIN OFFICE 
9 JACKSON AVE., LONG ISLAND CITY 

MAIN OFFICE TELEPHONES (3841 / HUNTERS 
DAY AND NIGHT | 3842 ( POINT 

DAY AND NIGHT TOWING 



New York City 



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Fifteen Minutes from Grand Cent- 

tral Subway Station. 5c. Fare. 

100 Acres Under Development. 

Adjoining the New 60 .Acre Million 

Dollar Water Front Park . 



100 HOUSES NOW BUILDING 

Six and sev&n rccms, with heated garage 
and private driveway. Colonial b-'i'-k. n=!r- 
quet floors, white ©name! trim, hot water 
heat, tiled bath and kitchen. 

Take Queensboro' Subway train from 
Grand Central Subway Station, direct to 
the property, one block from Ditmars 
Avenue Station. 

By motor, from Queenshoro Bridge fol- 
low left branch of Elevated road to Dit- 
mars Avenue Station. 

Send for photographs, floor plans and 
Pc^rtloulars. Brokers protected. 



The New Home Colony 




52 Vanderbilt Avenue 



Tel. MurravHill 1190 



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NEW QUEENS BOROUGH PLANT OF 

JOHN SIMMONS CO, 

(ONE CITY BLOCK) 

LONG ISLAND CITY 



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Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Oueens 



For Expert Opinions 



on 



Queens 

Borougfli 

Real 

Estate 

Consult 
Mr. Halleran 

oi the 

Halleran Agency 

Flushing, N. Y. 



EDWARD SMITH & COMPANY 

West Ave., Gth & 7th Sts. 

Longf Island City 

New York 



1827 



Varnish Makers 

and 

Color : Grinders 



PKone Hunterspoint 4045 




A. PETRY 



87 Fifth Street 
Long Island City, N. Y. 



WASTE 

AND 

WIPERS 



ON - THE - SPOT " DELIVERY 
20000 Lbs. In Sto-k 



NEW YORK AGENT 

VIAGY BROTHERS, Inc. 

PHILADELPHIA 



^ Brooklyn Daily Eagle 
JobPrintingDepartment 



Largest Plant in Brooklyn 
and Long Island 



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NVITESyour BOO KLETS 
inspection PROGRAMS 
and patron- REPORTS 
ART WORK 
COLOR WORK 
EN G RAVING 



age. A staff of 
efficient and 
courteous repre- 
sentatives are at 



your service tor 

consultation, advice, and estimates 

of cost. 

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FiftK Floor, '.' Eagle Building 

Brooklyn, N. Y. 
305 Washington Street 
Telephone 6200 Main 



New York City 



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Natiotial CasKet Co. 



A Few 
Electrical Installations 

OF THE 



H.B.K. 
[LECIC COHPflNy 

92 JACKSON AVENUE, LONG ISLAND CITV 



Industrial, Electrical Power and Lighting 
Installations 

A Fully Equipped Modern Repair S'lOp 

for Motors and Electrical 

Apparatus 

Westinghouse Agents in t'ne Borough of 
Queens 

Telephone 
612 Hunterspoint 



Art 

Ornament 

Co. 





Ronzoni 



\Liquid 
[Cwbomt 
Co. 




f'^. Organic Salt and Acid Co. NewarK N.J, 



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firtfatiic Salt and Acid Co. L.l.C. 



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Adler Veneer Seat Co. 



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INCORPORATED 

STEEL CONSTRUCTION 

29 i:A>iioccctt(!iciu, yVew. ,^><w ^it'U 

DESIGNERS, FABRICATORS AND CONSTRUCTORS 

OF 

STEEL BRIDGES, BUILDINGS, TANKS, TOWERS, 

SUGAR FACTORIES, WARE HOUSES AND 

STORAGE BUILDINGS 

Twenty Five Years Service supplying factory and industrial buildings of steel or 
concrete; steel construction in barges, bridges, trestles. viaducts, stacks. tanks, 
radio and transmission towers. mine shafts and head frames, structural steel 
shapes, reinforcing steel. corrugated steel and steel sash. 

PHONE, WRITE OR WIRE FOR OUR REPRESENTATIVE 
YOUR INQUIRIES WILL RECEIVE OUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION 



Lawyers 

Title and Trust 

Company 

Capital $4,000,000 

Surplus and Profits - 5,994,552 

Examines and insures titles to real 
property. Lends money on bond and 
mortgage. Sells first mortgages and 
mortgage certificates, guaranteed as to 
principal and interest; and first mort- 
gages without guarantee. 

Allows interest on deposits subject 
to check or on certificate. Designated 
depository for court funds and money 
of bankrupt estates. Acts as executor 
and trustee. Transacts all trust com- 
pany business. 

160 Broadway, New York 

188 MONTAGUE ST., BKN. 44 COURT ST., BKN. 1354 B'WAY, BKN, 
367 FULTON ST., JAMAICA, N. Y, 
383 E. 149FH STREET, NEW YORK 
160 MAIN ST., VYHITE PLAINS, N. Y. 



LONG ISLAND 
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359 Fulton Street 

Jamaica, N. Y. 
Telephone Jamaica 100 

ROBERT ^W. HIGBIE 
PRESIDENT 

HAIMILTON A. HIGBIE 
VICE PRESIDENT «& TREASURER 

W]VI. H. SHANNON 
SECRETARY 

MORTGAGE INVESTMENTS 



New York City 225 



Matching the Growth of Business 

Entering the seventieth year of its service 
to business, the Irving National Bank 
has completed the circle of its functions 
by merger of its allied institution, the 
Irving Trust Company. The union is 
the natural outcome of close association 
and common ownership, now that the 
amendment of the federal bank law per- 
mits the two institutions to join forces 
without sacrifice of customer service. 

To the friendly personal service which 
the Long Island City Office offered 
before the merger, the union of the two 
Irvings enables its officers to add the 
facilities and resources of the greater in- 
stitution and to place at the disposal of 
depositors every modern banking service, 
national and international. 

IRVING NATIONAL BANK 

LONG ISLAND CITY OFFICE 
BRIDGE PLAZA, LONG ISLAND CITY 



EDWARD E. McMAHON, Jr. THEODORE W. EGLY 

MANAGER aSST. MANAGER 




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TELEPHONE PLAZA 2149 



ESTABLISHED 1892 



TELEPHONE PLAZA 646 



G. J. Staats 
PLUMBING CONTRACTOR 

733 Lexington Avenue, New York 

Experience of more tKan a QUARTER CENTURY of Plumting for 

Factories, Office Buildings, Terminals, Piers, Residences 

Work Installed in Any Part of the United States 



First National Bank 

of Wkitestone 

Organized 1907 

Capital $56,000.00 

Surplus and Undivided 
Profits - - - - $56,000.00 

Every Facility to Depositors 
Open Monday Evenings 



FOR 



STANDARD GRADES 



OF 



BRICK-CEHENJ 
LIME 



CALL ON 



CLONIN & MESSENGER 



LONG ISLAND CITY 



TELEPHONE 1881 HUNTERS POINT 



Sweeney & Gray Co. 



ESTABLISHED 1893 



MACHINISTS AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEERS 

Artesian Wells 

DRILLED AND DRIVEN 

CORE, TEST. WASH AND FOUNDATION BORINGS FOR 

ARCHITECTS. ENGINEERS AND BUILDERS 

INCREASED WATER SUPPLY BY OUR NEW METHOD 

EXPERT REPAIRS TO WELLS 

W0RKS:81-83-85SIXTHST., L.I. CITY, NJ. 




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Everytliing 

for tne 

Automobile 



THOROUGHFARE 

GARAGE AND 

AUTO SUPPLY CO. 

QUEENS BOULEVARD AT 
ELM HURST 



AGENCY 
WITH SERVICE 




Distributors for Queens 
OF THE Famous 



HOWE TIRES 



New York City 227 



THE CENTURY AUDIT CORPORATION 

(Incorporated 1913) 

ACCOUNTANTS and AUDITORS 

FOR NUMEROUS ENTERPRISES IN QUEENS BOROUGH, 



41 Park Row 
MILES S, CHARLOCK ^^^ ^°^^' ^- ^• 

PRESIDENT Cortland 2142-3 



B 



uy Your Varnislies m Queens ! 



"WTE make a study of tKe require- 
ments of individual manufact- 
urers, and we mi^kt be able to 
Improve tbe finisb of your product 

Varnishes for Automobiles, Furniture and Trim. 

Black Baking Japans in All Grades. 

Liquid and Japan Dryers that will Dry. 

Exinolite, the All-Purpose Varnish 

THE THIBAUT & WALKER CO. 

MANUFACTURERS OF VARNISH SPECIALTIES 
72—76 Nintb Street Lon^ Island City, N. Y. 



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"Old Reliable 

"THE ONE WCK WORTHY OF THAT NAME" 

OLD RELIABLE MOTOR 
TRUCK CORPORATION 

I ONG ISLAND CITY 

Factory and Service Station 
ELY AND HARRIS AVENUES 

Manufacturers of 

2j4, 33^, 5 Ton Worm Drive Trucks 
and l}/2 Ton Chain Drive Trucks 

Dump Trucks a Specialty 



SERVICE AT YOUR DOOR 

Affiliated with Chicago, III. 
Establis'ned 1911 



Edward Ruth, Jr. 

4 Woodside Ave., Winfield, L I. 

Telephone 1847 Newtown 




REAL ESTATE 

INSURANCE OF EVERY DESCRIPTION 

MORTGAGE LOANS 



PONNERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES 






Harvey B. Newins 



INCORPORATED 



522 FIFTH AVENUE 
NEW YORK 

^2962 
VANDERBILT J ^963 



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2964 
2965 



Matheson Lead Co. 

Manufacturers of 

White Lead 
Flake White 
Litharge 
Red Lead 
Orange Mineral 

Office and Works 

559-571 VERNON AVENUE 
LONG ISLAND CITY. N. Y. 



TELEPHONE ASTORIA 3300 



PAYET 



SILK DYEING CORPORATION 

BOULEVARD AND WEBSTER AVENUE 
LONG ISLAND CITY 

DYERS AND FINISHERS 

OF ALL CLASSES OF 

SILK AND WOVEN TEXTILES AND 
JERSEY CLOTHS 

ALL GOODS INSURED AGAINST THIEF AND FIRE 

DURING IN OUR POSSESSION 

TWENTY MINUTES FROM T-Ffe SILK MAEJKET 



H.J.MULLEN CONTRACTING CO. 



-INCORPORATED- 



Paving and 

Sewer 
Construction 



JAMAICA 



NEW YORK 



A New Arrival 

TO FILL THAT LONG NEEDED WANT 

DROP 

Offi' 




New York City 



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COLUMBIA 
HOIST AND MACHINE CO. 

ELECTRIC 

CRANES AND HOISTS 



LABOR SAVING 
DEVICES 



BORDEN AVE. 



L I. CITY 



LA COUR 

IRON WORKS 

ENGINEERS & CONTRACTORS 

STEEL CONSTRUCTION 



L. U. LA COUR, C. E. 
S. J. DEVOE 



E. V. VORM 

BORDEN AVE. 



L. I. CITY 



Telephone 211 Richmond Hill 



EARL A. GILLESPIE 

Lumber 
and Trim 



97th Avenue and 98th Street 
WOODHAVEN JUNCTION 



LONG ISLAND 



Queens 

Advertising Agency 

48 Jackson Avenue 

LONG ISLAND CITY 



EXPERT SERVICE 

FOR EVERY 
ADVERTISING NEED 



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lelephoness 3450 f ilunterspoint 



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QUEENSBORO TERMINAL— Located East River and 14th St., 
Long Island City. Shipments may be made through this Terminal 
in connection with the iollowing roads : 



New York Central 
West Shore 
New Haven 



Erie 

Lehigh Valley 

Baltimore & Ohio 



Central Railroad of N. J. 
D., L. & W. 
N. Y. 0. & W. 



LOOSE LEAF 



THE Cesco Line comprises a Complete 
assortment oi modern business tools — 
Loose Leaf Binders and Accounting Forms 
for every conceivable purpose. 

It is a line of individuality — each item — 
Trom the vest pocket book to the highest grade 
ledger — v^^ith some distinguishing features. 

Exceptional facilities for the manufacture of 
Ruled Forms, Manifold Billing Blanks and all 
Loose Leaf Sheets. 

Catalogue on Request 

THE C. E. SHEPPARD CO. 

VAN ALST and 13th STREET, LONG ISLAND CITY 

NEW YORK CITY 




New York City 



231 



Long Island 
The Higli Point oi Queens 

Kew Gardens is 16 minutes by train from Pennsylvania 
Station, Manhattan, and it is not over 15 minutes 
run by automoDile from Bridge Plaza, Long Island City. A 
nner climate and a more oeautiiul development than any 
other nearby suDurD. We oner plots full of individuality 
and a home-Duilding plan that w^ill interest you; also new- 
houses just finishing. 

Edgeworth Smitli, Inc. 

Sole Agent 

New York Office at Kew Gardens Office at 

1 West 34th Street City Bound Station Platform 

Phone Greeley 5250 Phone Richmond Hill 1713 



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Antnracite 



TISCO 
COAL 



WOOD 

Bituminous 



DOMESTIC AND STEAM SIZES 

For over 70 years we have been supplying 
the merchants and manufacturers of this 
vicinity with the best quality of coal and 
can fill your requirements efficiently, 
speedily and with the least possible delay. 

TISDALE LUMBER CO. 

Lumber, Mill Work and Trim 
1000 Boulevard, L. I. City,N. Y., Phone Astoria 790 



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g Industrial Locations 
1 Construction Financed 



Real Estate 

BRIDGE PLAZA 



Plottage For 
Apartment Houses 



Long Island City, IV. Y. 



Some Important Industries We Have Located Here 


METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. 


Printing Plant 


200,000 square ft. 


STANDARD STEEL CAR CO. 


Service Station 


150.000 




GOULD MESEREAU CO. 


Drapery Hardw. 


130,000 




L. J. SELZNICK INC. 


Studio 


120,000 




UNITED BUTTON CO. 


Buttons 


100,000 




J. F. TAPLEY CO. 


Book Binding 


100,000 




WAPPLER ELEC. CO. 


Surgical App. 


100,000 




G. PIEL CO. 


Auto Parts 


70,000 




PALMOLIVE SOAP CO. 


Warehouse 


60,000 




EMERSON PHONOGRAPH CO. 


Phono. Records 


55,000 




GEHNRICH IND. OVEN CO. 


Enam. Ovens 


50,000 




WM. C. VAN BRUNT CO. 


Iron Works 


40,000 




MAURICE MILLER 


Smelting Plant 


30,000 




AUTO SALES CORP. 


Vending Mach. 


30,000 




CHAS. M. SORENSON, INC. 


Surg. Apparatus 


30,000 




MILLER SHOE CO. 


Shoes 


30,000 




HIMOFF MACHINE CO. 


Auto. Mach. 


20,000 




EMPIRE CITY IRON WORKS 


Struct. Iron 


20,000 




HILL BUTTON WORKS 


Celluloid But. 


20,000 




HARDITE METALS, INC. 


Metallurgy 


20,000 




LAURAINE MAGNETO CO. 


Magnetos 


20,000 




WALKER VEHICLE CO. 


Auto Trucks 


20,000 




MORGAN GROSSMAN 


Shoes 


20,000 




DELATOUR BEVERAGE CORP. 


Beverages 


20,000 





Roman- Callm AN Co. 



Industrial Locations 
Construction Financed 



Real Estate 



BRIDGE PLAZA 



Plottage For 
Apartment Houses 



Long Island City, N. Y. 



New York City 

CLASSIFIED DIRECTORY 

OF 

ADVERTISERS 



235 



PAGE 

ACCOUNTANTS and AUDITORS 

Century Audit Corporation 227 

ADVERTISING 
Queens Advertising Agency 229 

AIRPLANES 

L. W. F. Engineering Co 168 

ANCHORS 

Irving Iron Works 164 

APARTMENTS 

Queensboro Corporation 165 

ARCHITECTS and ENGINEERS 

Ballinger & Perrot 200-1 

Francisco & Jacobus 199 

ARTESIAN WELLS 

Sweeney & Gray Co 226 

AUTOMOBILES 

Harrolds Motor Car Co. (Pierce- 

Arrow) 173 

Old Reliable Motor Truck Co. ...228 
Packard Motor Car Co. of N. Y. . . 187 

Transport Service Inc 220 

Thoroughfare Garage 226 

The White Company 215 

AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES & 
SUPPLIES. 
Brunswicke-Balke-Collender Co. ..172 

Metal Stamping Co 162 

Motometer Co. Inc 207 

Thoroughfare Garage 226 

Transport Service, Inc 220 

BAGS & BAGGING 

Young & Metzner 178 

BALL BEARINGS 

Norma Company of America 192 

BANKS 

American Trust Company 168 

Bank of the Manhattan Company . .163 

The Corn Exchange Bank 167 

First National Bank of Whitestone 226 
New York National Irving Bank . . .225 

BATTERIES 

American Ever Ready Works 194 

BEDS & BEDDING 

Defender Manufacturing Co 176 

Manhattan-Rome Co 175 

BILLBOARD POSTERS 

Latham Litho & Printing Co 171 

BISCUITS 

Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co 161 

BOILERS 

Cole-Duncan Boiler Works, Inc. ...199 
The Christopher Cunningham Co. ..198 



PAGE 

BOOK BINDING 
Long Island Star Publishing Co. . . .213 
J. F. Tapley Co .212 

BOXES (Cardboard) 

Brockway-Fitzhugh-Stewart, Inc. ..212 

BRICK 

Clonin & Messenger 226 

J. P. Duffy Co 218 

Greenpoint Fire Brick Co 178 

Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Co. 180 

BRONZE & IRON WORK (Ornamental) 
Tiffany Studios 180 

BUILDERS (Homes & Factories) 

Ballinger & Perrot 200-1 

Cross & Brown Co 202 

Degnon Realty & Terminal Improv. 

Co 196-7 

Dickel Construction Co 188 

W. R. Gibson 209 

Louis Gold 205 

Hamilton & Chambers Co. Inc 224 

M. & L. Hess, Inc 204 

C. Curtis Woodruff & Co 190 

John T. Woodruff & Son 162 

CANDY 
Tiffin Products, Inc 194 

CASKETS 

National Casket Co 172 

CASTINGS (Iron) 
Long Island Foundry Co 186 

CEMENT 

Clonin & Messenger 226 

J. P. Duffy Company 218 

Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Co. 180 

CHEWING GUM 
Wm. Wrigley Jr. & Co 190 

COAL 

Jurgen Rathjen Co. 184 

Tisdale Lumber Co 231 

COLOR GRINDERS 

Edward Smith & Co 222 

CONTAINERS (Shipping) 

Brockway-Fitzhugh-Stewart, Inc. ..212 
CRANES & HOISTS (Electric) 

Columbia Hoist & Machine Co. ...229 
DOORS & WINDOWS 

Howell, Field & Goddard, Inc 208 

The Weisberg-Baer Co 210 

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS & 
CONTRACTORS. 

Austin & Moore, Inc 191 

H. B. K. Electric Co ••223 

Quinn Electric Co 218 



236 Chamber of Commerce of the Borough of Queens 

CLASSIFIED LIST OF ADVERTISERS— ( Continuea ) 



PAGE 

ELECTRIC POWER & LIGHTING 

N. Y. & Q. Elec. Light & Power Co. 216-7 

ENGINEERS & CONTRACTORS 

Ballinger & Perrot 200-1 

Francisco & Jacobus 199 

Hamilton & Chambers Co., Inc 224 . 

LaCour Iron Works 229 

H. J. Mullen Contracting Co 228 

FACTORY SITES 

W. D. Bloodgood & Co 232-3 

Cross & Brown Co 202 

Degnon Realty & Terminal Imp. Co. 196-7 

Henry Duchardt 170 

Judson A. Harrington 210 

M. & L. Hess, Inc 204 

Kouwenhoven Estates, Inc 164 

George J. Ryan 166 

Jamaica Property Corp 214 

Harvey B. Newins 228 

John W. Rapp 166 

Roman-Callman Co 234 

Roe H. Smith & Co 186 

FILING DEVICES 

Sadlier-Walters Co 22S 

FLASHLIGHTS 
American Ever Ready Works 194 

FLOUR & FEED 
J. & T. Adikes 178 

FURNITURE 

S. Karpen & Bros 208 

The Orsenigo Co 293 

GARAGES 

Thoroughfare Garage 226 

Transport Service, Inc 220 

GLASS 
Jos. Elias & Co. Inc 192 

HARDWARE 
A. Recknagel, Inc 202 

HAULING 

Queens Haulage Corp 210 

HOTELS 

The Knott Hotels 182 

Sage Foundation Homes Co 169 

HOUSES 

AIlyn-Hall Realty Co 202 

Dickel Construction Co 188 

W. R. Gibson 209 

Howard Estates Development Co. 190 

Laurelton Sales Co 185 

L'Ecluse, Washburn & Co 192 

Cord Meyer Development Co. ...179 

Rickert Brown Realty Co 221 

Sage Foundation Homes Co 169 

Edgeworth Smith, Inc 231 

Roe H. Smith & Co 186 

HOUSE WRECKING 

Donner House Wrecking Co., Inc. 206 

HYDRAULIC ENGINEERS 

Sweeney & Gray Co 226 

ICE 

Knickerbocker Ice Co 208 



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INSURANCE 

Henry M. Dietz 186 

Home Insurance Co 188 

Home Title Insurance Co 181 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. ..211 

Edward Ruth, Jr 228 

George J. Ryan 166 

Ten Eyck & Wangeman 172 

INTERIOR WOODWORK 
The Weisberg-Baer Co 210 

IRON 

Egleston & Bros. Co., Inc 170 

Irving Iron Works 164 

LaCour Iron Works 229 

LIGHTING FIXTURES 

Cassidy Co., Inc. 210 

Tiffany Studios 180 

LIME 

Clonin & Messenger 226 

J. P. Dufify Co 218 

Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Co. 180 
Queensborough Lumber Co., Inc. . . .176 

LITHOGRAPHING 

Brett Lithographing Co 214 

Latham Litho & Printing Co 171 

LOOSE LEAF BINDERS 

C. E. Sheppard Co., The .--- 230 

LUMBER 

Astoria Mahogany Co 184 

Donner House Wrecking Co., Inc. 206 

Earl A. Gillespie 229 

Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Co. 180 
Queensborough Lumber Co., Inc. . . .176 
Tisdale Lumber Co 231 

MACARONI 
Ronzoni Macaroni Co., Inc 220 

MACHINISTS 

Sweeney & Gray Co 226 

MARBLE 
Voska, Foelsch & Sidlo, Inc 174 

METAL POLISHES 

Grady Mfg. Co 220 

METAL SPECIALTIES 
Imperial Metal Mfg. Corp 220 

METERS 

Motometer Co., Inc. (Autos) 207 

Neptune Meter Co. (Water) 193 

MIRRORS 
Jos. Elias & Co., Inc 192 

MORTGAGES & LOANS 

. First Mortgage Guarantee Co. ...164 

Dickel Construction Co 188 

Henry M. Dietz 186 

Lawyers Title & Trust Co 224 

Long Island Finance Corp 224 

George J. Ryan 166 

Title Guarantee & Trust Co. ...... I90 

United States Title Guaranty Co. ..188 



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NEWSPAPERS 

Long Island Star Publishing Co. . . .213 
OFFICE FURNITURE & SUPPLIES 

Sadlier-Walters Co 228 

OIL (Lubricating) 

Three-In-One-Oil Co 183 

OVEN BUILDERS 

Gehnrich Indirect Heat Oven Co. ..204 

PACKING BOXES 
The Weisberg-Baer Co 210 

PAINT & VARNISH 

Emil Caiman & Co 174 

Matheson Lead Co 228 

Edward Smith & Co 222 

C. A. Willey Co .208 

PAVING & SEWER CONSTRUCTION 
H. J. Mullen Contracting Co. ...228 

PIANOS 

Steinway & Sons 195 

PIPE (Iron) 

John Simmons Co 221 

PIPES (Smokers) 

Wm. Demuth & Co 176 

PLUMBING SUPPLIES & CONTRACT- 
ING. 

The J. L. Mott Iron Works 206 

George M. O'Connor 192 

G. J. Staats 226 

PRINTING 

Brett Lithographing Co 214 

Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Job Printing 

Dept.) 222 

Latham Litho & Printing Co 171 

Long Island Star Publishing Co. ...213 
Sadlier-Walters Co 228 

REAL ESTATE 

Allyn-Hall Realty Co 202 

W. D. Bloodgood & Co 232-3 

Cross & Brown Co 202 

Degnon Realty & Terminal Imp. Co. 196-7 

Dickel Construction Co 188 

Henry M. Dietz 186 

Henry Duchardt 170 

Halleran Agency 222 

Judson A. Harrington 210 

M. & L. Hess, Inc 204 

Howard Estates Development Co. ..190 

Kew Gardens .' 231 

Jamaica Property Corp 214 

Kouwenhoven Estates, Inc 164 

Laurelton Sales Co 185 

L'Ecluse, Washburn & Co 192 

Cord Meyer Development Co. ...179 

Harvey B. Newins 228 

■Queensboro Corporation 165 

Roman-Callman Co 234 



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Rickert Brown Realty Co 221 

John W. Rapp 166 

Edward Ruth, Jr 228 

George J. Ryan 166 

Sage Foundation Homes Co 169 

Edgeworth Smith, Inc., 231 

Roe H. Smith & Co 186 

Ten Eyck & Wangeman 172 

RIBBONS 
Wm. Wicke Ribbon Co 218 

ROOFING 
A. Recknagel, Inc 202 

SAND 

Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Co. 180 

SHEET METAL PRODUCTS 

Hunter Illuminated Car Sign Co. ..182 

SHINGLES (Latite Asphalt) 
Howell, Field & Goddard, Inc. ...208 

SHOES & RUBBERS 
Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co. ...178 

Kozak & McLoughlin 174 

Rosenwasser Bros. Inc 199 

SILK DYEING 

Payet Silk Dyeing Corp 228 

SILKS 
Acorn Silk Co 174 

SNAP FASTENERS 
Waldes & Co., Inc 189 

SPICES 
E. R. Durkee & Co 219 

SPRINKLER TOPS 
Imperial Metal Mfg. Corp 220 

STACKS 
The Christopher Cunningham Co. 198 
Cole-Duncan Boiler Works, Inc. . . . 199 

STATIONERY SUPPLIES 

Sadlier-Walters Co 228 

STEEL 

Egleston & Bros. Co., Inc 170 

Hamilton & Chambers Co., Inc 224 

Irving Iron Works 164 

LaCour Iron Works 220 

National Bridge Works 198 

STORAGE 

Qaeens Haulage Corp 210 

Transport Service, Inc 220 

SUGAR 
The National Sugar Refining Co. . . . 177 

TANKS (Steel) 

Cole-Duncan Boiler Works, Inc. . . 199 
Hamilton & Chambers Co., Inc 224 

TERMINALS (Freight) 

Brooklyn Eastern Dist. Ter. Co. 230 
Degnon Realty & Terminal Imp. Co. 196-7 



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TIRES (Auto) 

Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. ...172 

TOWING 

Newtown Creek Towing Co 220 

VARNISHES 

Emil Caiman & Co 174 

Edward Smith & Co 222 

The Thibaut & Walker Co 227 

C. A. Willey Co 208 



VENEERS 

Astoria Mahogany Co 184 

WASTE 

John A. Retry 222 

WELDING (arc-oxy-acetylene-electro) 

Hunter Illuminated Car Sign Co. ..182 
WHITE LEAD 

Matheson Lead Co 228 

WIPERS 

John A. Retry - -- 222 



ALPHABETICAL LIST 
OF 
ADVERTISERS 



Acorn Silk Company 174 

Adikes, J. & T 178 

Allyn-Hall Realty Co 202 

American Ever Ready Works 194 

American Trust Co., The 168 

Astoria Mahogany Co., Inc 184 

Austin & Moore, Inc 191 

Ballinger & Perrot 200-1 

Bank of the Manhattan Company. . .163 

Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co 178 

Bloodgood & Co., W. D 232-3 

Brett Lithographing Co 214 

Brockway-Fitzhugh-Stewart, Inc 212 

Brooklyn Daily Eagle, The (Job Print- 
ing Dept.) 222 

Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co., The .172 
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal 
Co 230 

Caiman & Co., Emil 174 

Cassidy Co., Inc 210 

Century Audit Corporation, The 227 

Clonin & Messenger 226 

Cole-Duncan Boiler Works, Inc 199 

Columbia Hoist & Machine Co 229 



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184 



Commonwealth Fuel Co 

Columbia Paper Bag Co — 

Corn Exchange Bank, The 167 

Cross & Brown Co 202 

Cunningham Co., The Christopher ...198 

Defender Manufacturing Co., Inc. ..176 
Degnon Realty & Terminal Improve- 
ment Co. . .'. 196-7 

Demuth & Co., Wm 176 

Dickel Construction Co 188 

Dietz, Henry M 186 

Donner House Wrecking Co., Inc. ...206 

Duchardt, Henry 170 

Duffy Co., J. P 218 

Durkee & Co., E. R 219 

Egleston Bros. & Co., Inc 170 

Elias & Co., Inc., Joseph 192 

First Mortgage Guarantee Co 164 

First National Bank of Whitestone. .226 
Francisco & Jacobus 199 

Gehnrich Indirect Heat Oven Co., Inc. 204 

Gibson, W. R 209 

Gillespie, Earl A 229 



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Gold, Louis 205 

Grady Manufacturing Co 220 

Greenpoint Fire Brick Co 178 

H. B. K. Electric Company 223 

Halleran Agency •. 222 

Hamilton & Chambers Co 224 

Harrington, Judson A 210 

Harrolds Motor Car Co 173 

Hess, Inc., M. & L 204 

Home Insurance Company, The 188 

Home Title Insurance Company of 

New York 181 

Howard Estates Development Com- 
pany 190 

Howell, Field & Goddard, Inc 208 

Hunter Illuminated Car Sign Co., The 182 
Hunterspoint Lumber & Supply Co., 
Inc 180 

Imperial Metal Manufacturing Cor- 
poration 220 

Irving Iron Works Company 164 

Jamaica Property Corporation 214 

Jurgen Rathjen Company 184 

Karpen & Bros., S 208 

Kew Gardens Inn 182 

Kew Gardens 231 

Knickerbocker Ice Co 208 

Kouwenhoven Estates, Inc 164 

Kozak & McLoughlin, Inc 174 

L. W. F. Engineering Co., Inc 168 

LaCour Iron Works 229 

Latham Litho & Printing Co 171 

Laurelton Sales Co., Inc 185 

L'Ecluse, Washburn & Co., Inc 192 

Lawyers Title & Trust Co 224 

Long Island Finance Corporation ...224 

Long Island Foundry Co., Inc 186 

Long Island Railroad Co — 

Long Island Star Publishing Co 213 

Loose-Wiles Biscuit Co 161 

Manhattan-Rome Company 175 

Matheson Lead Company 228 

Metal Stamping Company 162 

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co 211 

Meyer Development Co., Cord 179 

Motometer Co., Inc., The 207 

Mott Iron Works, The J. L 206 

Mullen Contracting Co., H. J 228 

National Bridge Works 198 

National Casket Co 172 

National Sugar Refining Co., The ...177 

Neptune Meter Co 193 

Newins, Inc., Harvey B 228 

Newtown Creek Towing Company ..220 
New York National Irving Bank ...225 



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New York & Queens Electric Light & 

Power Co 216-17 

New York Telephone Company . . . — 
Norma Company of America, The ...192 

O'Connor, George M 192 

Old Reliable Motor Truck Company .228 
Orsenigo Co., Inc., The 203 

Packard Motor Car Company of New 

York, The 187 

Payet Silk Dyeing Corporation 228 

Retry, John A 222 

Queens Advertising Agency 229 

Queens Haulage Corporation 210 

Queensboro Corporation, The 165 

Queensborough Lumber Co., Inc. ...176 
Quinn Electric Company 218 

Rapp, John W 166 

Recknagel, Inc., A 202 

Roman-Callman Company 234 

Rickert-Brown Realty Co 221 

Ronzoni Macaroni Co., The 220 

Rosenwasser Bros., Inc 199 

Ruth, Jr., Edward 228 

Ryan, George J 166 

Sadlier- Walters Co 228 

Sage Foundation Homes Co 169 

Sheppard Co., C. E 230 

Simmons Co., John 221 

Smith, Inc., Edgeworth (Kew Gar- 
dens) 231 

Smith & Co., Edward 222 

Smith & Co., Roe H 186 

Staats, Gustave J 226 

Steinway & Sons 195 

Sweeney & Gray Co 226 

Tapley Company, J. F 212 

Ten Evck & Wangeman, Inc 172 

Thibaut & Walker Co., The 227 

Thoroughfare Garage 226 

Three-In-One Oil Company 183 

Tiffany Studios 180 

Tiffin Products, Inc 194 

Tisdale Lumber Co 231 

Title Guarantee & Trust Co 190 

Transport Service, Inc 220 

United States Title Guarantee Co. . . . 188 

Voska, Foelsch & Sidlo, Inc 174 

Waldes & Co., Inc 189 

Wangeman, Inc., R. Randel, 172 

Weisberg-Baer Co., The 210 

White Company, The 215 

Wicke Ribbon Co., Wm 218 

Willey Co., C. A 208 

Woodruff & Co., C. Curtis 190 

Woodruff & Son, John T 162 

Wrigley, Jr. Co., Wm 190 

Young & Metzner 178 



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CONTENTS 



Invitation . . 
Frontispiece 
Title Page . 
Introduction 



PAGE 
I 
2 
3 

5 



page 
<S=5 



Historical Notes (i-y 

Growth of New York City 8-i6 

Waterfront Development 17-38 

Foreign Trade 20 

Newtown Creek 20-23 

Dutch Kills Creek 23 

East River 23-27 

Public Docks 27 

Flushing Bay — Flushing Creek 26-31 

Flushing Bay — Jamaica Bay Canal 32-34 

Jamaica Bay 34-35 

Barge Canal Terminals 36-38 

Bridges 39-44 

Queensboro Bridge 39-43 

Tri-Borough Bridge 44 

Other Bridges 44 

New York Connecting Railroad ...45-46 

Trolley Lines 47-48 

Pennsylvania Station 49-50 

Long Island Railroad 51-65 

History 52 

Electrification 52-54 

Tunnels under East River 54 

Sunnyside Yard 54-55 

Improvements S5-56 

Woodside Transfer Station 57 

Passenger Traffic 58 

Freight Traffic and Facilities 58-60 

Montauk Point Harbor 60 

Stewart Railroad 61 

Wholesale Market 62 

Stations — Boroughs of Queens ...63-64 

War Record 64-63 

Rapid Transit 66-85 

Rapid Transit Map 66 

Benefits to Queens 67 

Extensions into Queens Borough 69 

Rapid Transit Centers 69-71 

Queensboro Subway 71-73 

Bridge Plaza Station y^^ 

Astoria Extension 73-74 

Corona Extension 75 

Extension to Flushing j-j 

Lutheran Cemetery Extension ... 78 

Liberty Avenue Extension 78-79 

Jamaica Avenue Extension 79-80 

Sixtieth Street Tunnel 81 

Dual Operation 82 

Crosstown Route 82-83 

Part taken by Chamber 84-85 



Growth in Passenger Traffic 

Industrial Development 86-110 

Queens as a Manufacturing Center 86 

Zoning Law 86 

Development prior to 1909 87-88 

Industrial Growth 1909-1916 89-90 

Industrial Census 1916 91-92 

Industrial Development 1920 93 

Nineteen Reasons that Attract New 

Industries 94-97 

Benefits from New Industries 98 

Rank of Queens in Manufacturing ... 99 

New Industries 1918-1919 100 

Articles Made in Queens 102-104 

Factories 105-110 

Residential 111-131 

Residential Advantages 112-115 

Effect of Industrial Development ... 116 

Demand for Homes 1 16-1 18 

Residential Development 119-131 

First Ward 122-123 

Second Ward 123-125 

Third Ward 125-127 

Fourth Ward 127-129 

Fifth Ward 129-130 

Homes for All 130-131 

New Buildings 132-134 

Banks I35-I37 

Light, Heat and Power 138-139 

Electric Companies 138 

Gas Companies 138-139 

Telephones 139-140 

Government 141-142 

Queens — A Community of Vast Re- 
sources. (By Borough President 

Maurice E. Connolly) 143-144 

Mortgage Loans 145 

Area 145-146 

Population 146 

Assessed Valuations 147 

Water Supply 147 

Chamber of Commerce of the Borough 

of Queens 148-160 

Officers, Directors, Executive Staff. 148 

Reasons for Membership 149 

Ninth Annual Dinner 150 

Alphabetical List of Members (April 

22, 1920) 151-159 

Application Blank 159 

Chart of Membership Growth 160 

Advertisements ---■ 161-234 

Classified Index 235-238 

Alphabetical Index :... 238-239 

Contents 240 



